At Palais Garnier opera house, a young Swedish soprano Christine Daaé sings instead of the

leading soprano Carlotta due to the illness of the latter, what later becomes a mesmerizing
performance.

In the audience is sitting Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who recognizes Christine as her childhood
love interest. He rushes to meet Christine after her performance; however outside the room he
hears a man is all praise for her. After Christine leaves, he goes inside and finds no other person
there.

At Perros-Guirec, Raoul is told by Christine her that she has been encountering some angel of
music, who had not been kind towards her. Raoul rubbishes that claim which makes Christine
leave in anger.

One night while Christine was at her father’s grave, an inhuman frightening figure appears out
of nowhere and starts playing the violin. Raoul tries defying him but ends being thrashed, as it
was some supernatural being. While back at the Palais Garnier, a letter sent by the alleged
phantom of the opera is received stating that Christine should be the one performing the lead
role of Marguerite in Faust, and that box 5 be left empty or else the curse will be sent on the
opera house leading to unwanted events. The managers, however, did not take the letter
seriously. As a result, Carlotta's voice, what was melodious, that day sounds as nails scratched
against some wall and the chandelier fell on one of the people in the audience.

Christine is abducted by the phantom of the opera and he discloses his name as a person
named Erik. He plans to keep her in his secret tunnel but the unfolding of Erik’s mask, which
beneath had a terrifyingly unpleasant face leads to the change in the plan.

Afraid of the effect of his unpleasant face, Erik decides to keep her forever with him. However,
he releases her a few days later by making Christine vow to keep his ring and to be faithful with
him forever.

After she has been released, Christine shares with Raoul what she had been through and begs
to take her away, where Erik would never be able to find her. Meanwhile, both were ignorant
of the fact that Erik was listening to them.

Outraged by this, Erik abducts Christine once again and tried marrying her forcefully.
Meanwhile, Erik led by some opera regular named “The Persian” discovers the secret tunnel of
Erik, where they get themselves trapped in a mirror room. Erik threatens Christine of killing
them both and everyone in the opera by explosives unless she does not marries him. Christine
agrees becoming her living bride and thereof the release of both Raoul and the Persian
becomes possible.
Erik shows some emotions to Christine both emotionally and physically making them cry at the
same time resulting in the blending of the tears of them both. Erik lets Christine go and
requests to visit him on the day of his death. He also requests the Persian to make the news of
his death published in the newspapers.

The last narration from the Persian states that Erik was born to some construction business
owner and he had some birth defects. All his life he had been moving and living to different
places and finally returned to France and started his own construction company.

When he had contracted some part of the Palais Garnier for construction, he built himself a
secret tunnel with some hidden passages, only to give himself living a mysterious life.