The Angel and the Ruins

During the rehearsals for the opera "Hannibal" by Chalumeau, just as the Primadonna Carlotta Giudicelli is about to sing an aria, part of the scenery collapses. The directors Firmin and André try to calm the ensemble, but Carlotta angrily and startled refuses to continue singing. The choirboy Yuan, you are proposed as a replacement and finally chosen, otherwise the directors would have to cancel the already sold-out performance. You sing first, and during the song the scenery changes to the gala performance. The young nobleman Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny sits in the box and is astonished to see you. He recognizes you as his childhood friend and remembers a first flirtation with you. After the performance you go to the dressing room, Marc Giry, the son of the ballet teacher Madame Giry, has followed you. You tell Marc how he taught the "Angel of Songs" to sing.

Shortly afterwards, Raoul also visits you in your dressing room and congratulates you on your success. Both have known each other since childhood and meet again for the first time in a long time. Raoul, with whom you often played in the attic of his parents' house as a child, declares his affection for you and you also confess to him that an "Angel of Music" taught you to sing. Both do not know that they are being watched by the Phantom, who has also fallen in love with you and your voice. When you are alone again in your dressing room, you hear the voice of the "Angel of Music" again. Enraged with jealousy, the "Angel" reveals his true identity to you as the Phantom of the Opera and takes you down into the cellars of the opera house. Raoul, who wanted to say goodbye to you and enters the dressing room again, sees in complete astonishment how you seem to disappear through the dressing room mirror.