

Moments later, chief stage machinist Joseph Buquet is found dead, hanging beneath the stage. In the 1880s, on Debienne and Poligny’s last night as Opera directors, chaos erupts when ballerinas claim to have see the Opera ghost. From the beginning, the narrator affirms that the Phantom does exist, but is in fact a human being, not a ghost. The Opera Ghost or Phantom has been said to appear as a black figure with a skull face covered in yellow, rotten skin with burning eyes. In the 1880s, strange events have been unfolding at the Paris Opera House, convincing people that the Opera must be haunted. Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, follows a narrator’s investigation into the actions and identity of the mysterious Phantom of the Opera.
