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__Le fantô me de l’Opéra __

__The Architect__ Charles Garnier, the architect of the l’Opéra Garnier, was born in Paris, France on November 6, 1825. Garnier attended the Ecole de Dessin in the evenings until 1840, then continued school at the atelier of Louis Hippolyte Lebas. Before he went to Italy for five years to work for Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, he won the Grand-Prix de Rome while studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. It was in Rome where he became interested in “pageantry of Roman Society.” After his five years in Rome, Garnier went to Greece and Turkey to finish out his architectural education in 1852. Back in Paris, Garnier entered into a competition called Académie Nationale Musique, also known as Opéra in 1861. The competition runs in two phases. In the first phase Garnier got fifth place then later in the year, in the second phase, Garnier won. He began designing the l’Opéra Garnier 1861 and in 1862 the work to build the opera house began. They finished the outside of the building in 1867, but the interior was not finished until 1874. Garnier’s work reflected aspirations of the Second Empire.

__The Building__  One of the most beautiful buildings in the world is the L'opera Garnier. Work on the structure began in 1861 and lasted around 15 years. The cost of the whole building was forty-seven million francs. When the plans were made to design the Opera House, there were over 200 entries informally submitted and only 171 entries picked to be viewed. The whole building sits on three acres of land. Inside the theater, there are two thousand seats and has seventeen stories. The Opera House has many fountains, chandeliers, and many different levels of cellars. There are rooms in the Opera House such as chorus rooms, ball rooms, green rooms, closets, set rooms, dressing rooms, and so many more that are located underground. On the last level of the Opera house there is a lake, this was caused when a worker knocked into a pipe and it started to leak. The Paris Opera house is more richly decorated than any building in its time period.   __ The Musical __  The musical of The Phantom of the Opera was created by Andrew LloydWebber in 1986. He composed the music and Charles H art and Richard Stilgoe wrote most of the lyrics. The musical opened in 1986 in London in the West End and, in 1988, was on Broadway. In the West End Production, Michael Crawford played the phantom (Erik) and Kristin (Christine) was played by Sarah Brightman and Claire Moore. The sets and costumes were designed by Maria Bjornson. He made it into a movie in 2004 with the help of Joel Schumacher. In the movie, the phantom is played by Gerard Butler and Christine is played by Emmy Rossum. The movie follows the original musical pretty closely.

__ The Author __ Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born on May 6, 1868 to parents Marie Alphonsine and Julien Leroux. Gaston went to school in Normandy. After that he continued school in Paris to study law. He graduated in 1889. Gaston was a journalist, dramatist, and author. In 1899, Leroux married his first wife, Marrie Lefranc, and soon followed the divorce. In 1902, while in Switzerland, he met his second wife, Jeanne Cayatte. They had two children together, Alfred Gaston and Madeleine. One of Gaston’s most famous books was The Phantom of the Opera, it was released in 1910. At only the age of 58, he died April 15, 1927 after complications from surgery. He was an inspiration to writers all over the world.

__ The Book __ The book was written by Gaston Leroux and was published in 1910. Leroux believed that the opera ghost, or the Phantom of the Opera,actually existed. The main characters are Erik, the phantom, Christine, a dancer and a singer, and Raoul, a childhood friend of Christine’s. The Phantom has taught Christine how to sing and is in love with her. But Raoul is also in love with her. The phantom definitely gets in the way of their love for each other but in the end, Raoul and Christine get to be together. In the book, the phantom, dies and in the movie, he just disappears.

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