The Tale of the Angel of Music

by maskedangel29

This story is a mix of three things. Gaston Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera, Andrew L. Webber's Phantom of the Opera musical, and my creative imagination. This is basically a version I created soley on my knowledge of Leroux's and Webber's works. Enjoy!

1. Prologue

Prologue:

The Phantom of the Opera had many names. He was known as the Angel of Music, the Opera Ghost, but a rare few knew him as Erik. My name is Elizabeth Beatrice de La Londe. I am a researcher and a journalist and this story is about the true occurrence of the Phantom of the Opera.

You've all heard of my temporary partner Gaston Leroux who published his successful book of "Le Fantôme de l'Opera". I'm sure most of you have even read it, and yes, I must admit, it was a pretty good story. Nevertheless it is incomplete and there for, inaccurate.

If you haven't read the book you most certainly have seen the musical play of Andrew Lloyd Webber, a descendent of Pierre Charpentier, who composed his version of the story of the Opera Ghost in a play script form, later transformed into a musical by Webber. Both very similar, both spectacular stories, but both inadequately equipped with the proper information, for they both left out a very crucial person who had a great impact on the Phantom's life story.

That one person alone, I found, has revealed to me an enormous change in the accounts both Leroux and Charpentier/Webber brought forth in their final creations. However, due to the separation Leroux and I took during our research (he thought that my conclusions and discoveries were false and filled with utter fantasy and dismissed me saying that I was too young and immature to help him with his research, even though I was the one who found the trap door in the third cellar) I have been able to go my own way, and follow my own leads. Which have lead me to the greatest discovery that Leroux ever had! And that was a woman.

There was more than one woman in the Phantom's life, and I, Elizabeth Beatrice de La Londe, have discovered who she was! This story that you are about to read will re-capture main things you've probably either read or seen in one of the Leroux's or Webber's/Charpentier's interpretations of the story. Some may seem exactly like the tale from Leroux, and some scenes will be like the one from Webber's play, but this one all together is different, accurate, and completely factual.

So, without further ado, I give you the Tale of the Angel of Music.