{"id":1470,"date":"2013-08-18T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarpopblue.com.au\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:33:35","slug":"30-my-paris-the-phantom-and-his-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugarpopblue.com.au\/blog\/30-my-paris-the-phantom-and-his-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"30. The Phantom and the Paris Opera; Palais Garnier"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a little girl, I was fortunate enough to be taken to the theater each time an Andrew Lloyd Webber production rolled into town. My favourite by far was The Phantom of the Opera<\/a>, based on the gothic novel by Gaston Leroux<\/a>. (Yes, even as a child, I couldn’t resist the mystery and romance of the genre!) <\/p>\n

For those who weren’t as privileged, it is a macabre and tragic love story between the masked Phantom, a disturbed and disfigured man (thus the mask) who lives in the cavernous crypt beneath Paris’ Opera, and the young Christine, an up-and-coming singer. Here’s a snippet of the two from the recent, self-titled movie<\/a> starring Gerard Butler<\/a> as yours truly:<\/p>\n