![]() ![]() ![]() One of Christine and Raoul's favourite stories is one of Little Lotte, a girl with golden hair and blue eyes who is visited by the Angel of Music and possesses a heavenly voice. Christine meets and befriends the young Raoul, Viscount of Chagny, who also enjoys her father's many stories. When Christine is six, her mother dies and her father is brought to rural France by a patron, Professor Valerius.ĭuring Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an 'Angel of Music', who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. Her father was known to be the best wedding fiddler in the land. She and her father, a famous fiddler, traveled all over Sweden playing folk and religious music. We are then introduced to Christine Daaé. The novel opens with a prologue in which Gaston Leroux claims that Erik, the "Phantom of the Opera", was a real person. 3 Insistance of the Existence of Erik by Leroux. ![]()
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