![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Phantom of the Opera, though most people may not know it or care, has literary roots, Gaston Leroux’s original French novel was published in 1910, but that had long been deeply influenced by Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris (1831), known in most versions as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The show, about a mask-wearing opera lover who haunts the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed with a young soprano, is famous for the chandelier which crashes onto the stage each night, and is characterized by over-the-top spectacle and melodrama. ![]()
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