Author's Note:

I DO NOT OWN THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. I just obsess over it…It is based on the musical, it is under the category for the movie, because I couldn't find the category for the musical under musical….go figure…. Enjoy and please review!

~Chapter 1~

The year is 1879 (3 years before the Don Juan incident) and the opéra populaire is expecting The Royal Opera's most renown soprano to perform a solo concert at 8:30. It is now 5:00, and people are running around backstage, preparing dressing rooms, and costume fittings, sending flowers to rooms, preparing makeup, all for this woman. The manager of the opera house couldn't be more overjoyed, the opera has been the busiest it's been in years, and with this "celebrity" coming to perform, he'll be swimming in profit.

Meanwhile, a ballet practice is taking place on stage. The company is getting ready for their performances of Don Giovanni that will resume the next day. As the ballet dancers are watching the stage hands and crew run around like chickens without heads, they whisper to each other and gossip jealously about the young soprano that will steal their stage from them.

"I hear she gets paid 50 francs per performance..." said one ballet girl to another.

"I heard the only reason she's here is because she's losing money in England." another voice laughed quietly.

"I heard she had to sleep with the manager in order to perform here!" one said and the group of girls laughed.

"Enough! That's disgusting and she would ever do such a thing!" Meg Giry said as she interrupted their cruel laughter.

"Have you ever met her, Meg?" asked the snobbish girl who made the remark.

"Well no, but-"

"Then you don't know that she didn't."

"And you don't know that she did."

"Enough! Ladies, do not talk about that woman in such a manner! You don't know anything about her and it is none of your business either now get back to practice!" yelled Madame Giry

"Yes Madame." they said in unison.

She looked at them with a dead stare and they got back to practicing. The hours went by and the stage was cleared, the lights were ready and the cast and crew gathered on the stage to welcome their long anticipated guest.

Author's note:

Sorry for the short chapter, more is on the way! Please leave a review! I'm anxious to hear what you think!