Though the Phantom has a prodigious artistic talent, he has a hideous face that excludes him from society. The general plot is as follows: Far beneath the majesty and splendor of the Paris Opera House hides the Phantom in a shadowy existence. Leroux managed to capture in his pages the atmosphere of the latter part of the 19 th Century, when belief in the supernatural spirit world was rampant in France. He left his mark on literature with a novel about an extraordinary episode in the history of France’s greatest opera house, the Paris Opera House. The Phantom of the Opera was created by the versatile French author, Gaston Leroux. Now The Phantom of the Opera has been transformed into a musical along with a new interpretation of its main character, the Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera is probably the best example of all. There are rare exceptions to this general rule, however, where these adaptations have become much more familiar to people instead and the original novels are largely forgotten. In most cases, the original novels are more familiar to people and so the “transformations” are often thought to be inferior to the original works. There have been many cases in which novels are transformed into different genres, such as movies, musicals, and so on. No, he existed in flesh and blood, though he assumed all the outward characteristics of a real phantom, that is to say, of a ghost.” -Gaston Leroux He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants, or the concierge. A new interpretation of The Phantom of the Opera
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