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Christine Daae After three months of private, secret lessons, Christine Daae wowed the audience of the Opera House with her singing for the first time, with new passages from Romeo and Juliet, as a last minute replacement for the ‘ill’ La Carlotta. Her performance is described as containing ‘super human notes’. Christine’s mother died when she was roughly six-years-old. Her doting father who was excellent with the violin chiefly raised her. She was a pretty child with graceful manners and was genuinely eager to please. One day when she was out with her father, playing and singing, her scarf blew away. Raoul de Chagny, who had forced his governess to help follow them-mesmerized by Christine, retrieved it. Christine is golden-haired and blue-eyed. She has a fresh, young face and is quick to blush. Many behind the scenes at the Opera House love Christine. She visits those that worked even the lowliest jobs there. But, she as gone into the cellars only once, fearing the demons she saw there. Though Christine believes strongly in the Angel of Music and the voice speaking to her in her dressing room, she does not believe in the Opera ghost until the first time he takes her away. “You now know the tragedy. It went on for a fortnight—a fortnight during which I lied to him. My lies were as hideous as the monster who inspired them; but they were the price of my liberty. I burned his mask; and I managed so well that, even when he was not singing, he tried to catch my eye, like a dog sitting by its master. He was my faithful slave and paid me endless little attentions. Gradually, I gave him such confidence that he ventured to take me walking by the banks of the lake and to row me in the boat on its leaden waters; toward the end of my captivity he let me out through the gats that closed the underground passages in the Rue Scribe. Here a carriage awaited us and took us to the Bois. The night when we met you was nearly fatal to me, for he is terribly jealous of you and I had to tell him that you were soon going away…Then, at last, after a fortnight of that horrible captivity, during which I was filled with pity, enthusiasm, despair and horror by turns, he believed me when I said, “I will come back!” “…each of my visits to Erik increased my horror of him; for each of those visits, instead of calming him, as I hoped, made him mad with love! …And I am so frightened, so frightened!…” |
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