![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, each new iteration of the story adds new depth to the mystique surrounding Leroux’s original work, and serves to capture the imagination in a new way. The disfigured Erik, haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly trains singer Christine Daa, leading to an obsessive love, a pattern of fear and violence. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera ( Le Fantôme de lOpéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew. The love triangle between disfigured Erik, beautiful Christine and noble Raoul has been told and re-told many times, notably in the 1925 Universal movie starring Lon Chaney, the 1943 Universal production starring Claude Rains, and the 1962 Hammer version with Herbert Lom.Īlthough no adaptation is completely faithful to the novel, changing the Phantom’s motivations and the ramifications of the protagonists’ choices, the core story of The Phantom of the Opera remains as haunting as ever. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. ![]() The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois on the 23rd of September, 1909, later to be published in volume form in April of the following year.Ĭreated by French writer Gaston Leroux, the now-familiar story tells the timeless tale of the Paris Opera House’s many denizens. ![]()
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