剧院魅影出自「剧院魅影ThePhantomOfTheOpera」

The Phantom Of The Opera 剧院魅影

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux加斯东·路易·阿尔弗雷德·勒鲁

"The Phantom of the Opera" is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her.

After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.

Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.

剧院魅影（The Phantom Of The Opera）是一部由哈罗德·普林斯导演的音乐剧。讲述的是一个毁容的音乐天才，歌剧院幽灵Erik在巴黎歌剧院的地下墓穴里神出鬼没，还经常出来闹一闹鬼。当他爱上了可爱的年轻女演员Christine之后，发生的种种故事……

在巴黎的一家歌剧院里，怪事频繁地发生，原来的首席女主角险些被砸死，剧院出现一个令人毛骨悚然的虚幻男声。这个声音来自住在剧院地下迷宫的“幽灵”，他爱上了女演员克丽斯汀，暗中教她唱歌，帮她获得女主角的位置，而克丽斯汀却爱着剧院经济人拉乌尔，由此引起了嫉妒、追逐、谋杀等一系列情节。而最终“幽灵”发现自己对克丽斯汀的爱已经超过了个人的占有欲，于是解脱了克丽斯汀，留下披风和面具，独自消失在昏暗的地下迷宫里。

该剧的音乐写的极为成功，神秘而优美。刚开始的一首：“拍卖品666”就会紧紧抓住你的心，而随后“The Phantom of Opera”以及“The Music of the Night”,已经成了音乐剧的经典名曲。

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IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS SINGULAR WORK INFORMS THE READER HOW HE ACQUIRED THE CERTAINTY THAT THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena ascribed to the "ghost" and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes; and I soon conceived the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the phenomena in question. The events do not date more than thirty years back; and it would not be difficult to find at the present day, in the foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon whose word one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended the kidnapping of Christine Daae, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body was found on the bank of the lake that exists in the lower cellars of the Opera on the Rue-Scribe side. But none of those witnesses had until that day thought that there was any reason for connecting the more or less legendary figure of the Opera ghost with that terrible story.

The truth was slow to enter my mind, puzzled by an inquiry that at every moment was complicated by events which, at first sight, might be looked upon as superhuman; and more than once I was within an ace of abandoning a task in which I was exhausting myself in the hopeless pursuit of a vain image. At last, I received the proof that my presentiments had not deceived me, and I was rewarded for all my efforts on the day when I acquired the certainty that the Opera ghost was more than a mere shade.