When the mob reaches his lair, the only item left of The Phantom is his mask. Desperate to save Raoul’s life, she kisses The Phantom and this tender exchange makes him realise Christine doesn’t love him and he lets them both go. The Phantom captures him and gives Christine a choice: choose Raoul and have The Phantom kill him, or chose The Phantom and Raoul lives. Raoul finds them both before the crowd does. Distraught, The Phantom brings a chandelier down and sets the opera house on fire, dragging Christine down to his lair while pursued by a hate-filled mob. She, in return, takes his mask off for the audience to see who he really is, and they panic and run. That evening, The Phantom kills the leading man of the opera and takes to the stage with Christine and professes his love for her.
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He is soon confronted by Raoul, and the two fight each other, with Raoul eventually leaving with Christine and The Phantom promising revenge on them both.
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The next day, Christine goes to the local cemetery to visit her father’s grave and is met by The Phantom, who tries to get her to leave with him. Having given chase to The Phantom, Raoul finds himself trapped in a room of mirrors, only to be rescued by Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson), who confesses she was the one who brought The Phantom to the opera house after, as a child, he murdered the man who put him on show due to his disfigurement. The Phantom swears revenge.Ī few months pass and The Phantom has remained silent, until the evening of a masquerade ball, where his appearance leads the party to end in disaster. Terrified by The Phantom’s actions, Christine and Raoul flee to the roof and declare their love for each other, not realising The Phantom is watching them. After blackmail notes from The Phantom fail to be heeded by the owners of the opera house, he strikes his revenge by making the lead singer Carlotta lose her voice and murdering a rope man, John Buquet.