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In 1908, in France, in the basement of the Grand Opera, a skeleton of a man with a mutilated skull and a female was discovered ring on the finger. Theater Garston Leroux found that, most likely, this skeleton belongs to the legendary Phantom of the Opera.
This character once lived in a building and selflessly fell in love with one of chorus girl. He could not stand the indifference of his beloved and committed suicide. With that the unfortunate ghost wanders through the corridors of the theater impressionable viewers see his dark figure in the fifth box.
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Grand Opera Theater (Opera Garnier), the largest opera house in the world – the standard of eclectic architecture. This building is striking in its beauty and shocking luxury interior decoration. It was built by order of Napoleon III for 15 years, but some of its parts remained unfinished. The building is huge, but most visitors they don’t know that its main part is dungeons. They are located on several levels have many corridors. Currently half of the dungeons are destroyed, but the builders do not spend restoration work, fearing collapse. It is noteworthy that under the center of the Opera is a real underground lake – one of branches of the Seine, so it is impossible to pump out water from it. In XIX century, this water reservoir was used for technical purposes. An opera named after the chief architect, but, according to theatrical traditions, Garnier was not the only architect.
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When workers found a skeleton in a broken basement wall, powdered brick, passionate theater and journalist Monsieur Gaston Leroux began to conduct his own investigation. Exploring the find, he was shocked by the contrast between the monstrous ugliness of the skull and the presence of an elegant female ring on the finger. He published the image of the ring in all the newspapers in the hope that someone will find out the relic will respond, but there were none.
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Judging by the skeleton, the tragedy occurred 30 years ago, and there were still alive workers who built the opera building. Peru managed to talk several old workers. They remembered that one of the architects there was a man with a disfigured face. To hide the terrible view, he I wore a mask, and if I took it off, then I even saw a lot for a century, masons were frightened and overshadowed themselves with a cross.
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Nothing really was known about him, but there were rumors that born unhappy in a French village. Mother conceived him from unknown father and during pregnancy tried to hide her position, pulling the stomach with a corset, so the baby was born disfigured.
Then mother sold the offspring to the gypsies, as a curiosity, and with them the boy ended up in eastern countries. Somehow he managed get into the studio of an architect, get trained and become skilled the architect. Then he came to France and took part in the construction of the Opera.
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The Directorate provided him with a small apartment in the building itself, along with other theater staff. When construction was completed, the architect stayed to work at the Opera for maintenance of the building, settling nearby.
At that time, a girl named Dae sang in the opera choir. Freak Loved her, but she did not reciprocate. In addition, Dae was a wealthy patron. Once an architect lured her into his house, after holding two weeks in the basement. What did he do with her there – unknown, but then let go of the girl, and he disappeared. Began to walk rumors that he committed suicide in a sophisticated way, walled himself up in the dungeons of the Opera. After that, in the corridors of the theater began to appear a ghost, and he penetrated anywhere, even could pass through walls.
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Gaston Leroux, after listening to this story and recording it, decided to make it even more sinister. He called the mysterious freak Eric, making his brilliant composer. According to him, the “Angel of Music” taught young chorus girl Christina singing. He opened the way to the stage with her violent crimes. Christine was “given” the noble groom Raul de Shanyi.
So the famous thriller – “The Phantom of the Opera”, which was published in 1910. This work was not noticed at first, but 4 years later, his first film adaptation was made. The movie was called “The Phantom of the Violin”, but the creators did not bother to buy rights to the film adaptation of the author. Leroux, who was also a lawyer, achieved a ban on showing a “pirate” movie.
The second film version appeared in 1925 with the name – “Man with a thousand faces. “This film version is considered the most creepy and most successful. Lon Cheney, who starred in this movie, he made up himself, and managed to create a truly nightmarish disguise from his pretty face. This “ghost” no one could outperform.
In 1998, the famous Italian director Dario Argento made the “Phantom of the Opera” an erotic thriller. In his version The ghost is not freak at all and commands the rats.
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In 2002, film director Joel Schumacher proposed to film musical film. Gaston Leroux unhappy Eric died in the dungeons Opera from love and longing, but in the film adaptation of the musical he was presented another fate. A mask was made especially for the musical, covering only part of Eric’s face.
The debate about whether there was a real prototype of the Phantom of the Opera, are still underway. Garston Leroux claimed to have existed, moreover in flesh and blood. Other historians believe that the Ghost is a legend. In the days of the Paris Commune in the basement of the Opera Communards set up a prison, shot people in dozens, and corpses walled up in the walls of the corridors. Then these skeletons were found workers. Bullet potholes were found in the walls and bones, and on the floor – brown spots from once spilled blood. Perhaps one of the victims Communards and became that ghost that is now invisibly present in the building. There is even a special box in the theater for a ghost that is constantly empty, but theater management claims that she is for guests of honor. Impressive visitors to the Opera often see in its depths a dark figure in white mask.
French theater critic Madame de Weilles in 1994 published the results of its research. Her perennial research confirmed the version of Gaston Leroux.
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