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| - The scene opens in present day Manhattan where Christine Day meets with her accompanist, Meg, to find music for the next audition. Meg discovers Erik Destler’s unfinished opera, Don Juan Triumphant. While auditioning, Christine is hit with a sandbag falling from the rafters and is rendered unconscious. When she awakes, it’s 1889 and she is lying in the London Opera House. Christine is shown to her room after a Joesph Baquet blames a spirit for the dropping of the sandbag. Alone, her "Angel of Music" visits her and tells her that she will be playing Marguerite in tonight’s performance. The scene pans to Carlotta’s dressing room. She demands for Christine to return to the chorus. She then finds the skinned body of Baquet in her closet and doesn’t sing. While the Phantom attends the opera in his usual box, he flashbacks to the deal he made with the devil. Everyone will hear and love his music, however, his face has been disfigured and burned. Christine sings beautifully and receives a standing ovation. After the show, Christine goes to dinner with Richard. The next morning, the reviewer gives her a terrible review and she goes to the grave of her father where she meets with the Angel of Music, playing a lullaby on the violin, and goes with him to his lair. Erik shows her his unfinished Opera and Christine sings the words. Afterwards, he places a ring on her finger and binds their souls. He demands that she cannot see any other man. When Christine returns, she gives Ricard a note telling him to meet her at the masquerade ball. At the ball, Christine and Richard meet up and she attempts to tell him everything. Erik is there and murders Carlotta. He then kidnaps Christine and Richard uses one the the stage hands to discover the lair. At the Lair, Erik tries to make Christine marry her. Richard attempts to rescue her, Erik murders her and he burst into flames. Christine falls into the pit after him. Back to the present, Christine awakes to discover she has received the part from the producer, Mr. Faustus. At his apartment, Christine realizes that Faustus is the Phantom and destroys his music to destroy him. While leaving, Christine hears the phantom’s lullaby on a violin.
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