Some of the stories of people, places, and events that inspired The Phantom of the Opera are true. And he based his novel on multiple spooky events in the Palais Garnier, the opera house where the Phantom book and musical are set. But stories of a chandelier crash and a ghost at the opera house in Paris circulated long before The Phantom of the Opera, now set to close in February 2023, became the longest-running Broadway show and third-longest-running West End show in history.Ĭompoer Andrew Lloyd Webber based the show on a 1910 novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux. The story of a masked, disfigured Paris Opera House dweller who puts an ingenue under his musical spell sounds like the stuff of myths. history book? He could be, or at least inside a book of legends.
The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside your.
