

She hits his face with a rock and calls to Raoul for help but instantly regrets her actions, and her feelings for the Phantom return. When she awakens, he tells her that she is his, and that they will remain alone together until death. The Phantom carries Christine back down below and lays her down. The next night Christine sings as Juliet, but the Phantom swoops down onto the stage, and she faints in his arms. The Phantom watches and breaks down crying when he sees them kiss.

She flees into the arms of Raoul, and they ascend to the roof, where they confess their love for each other. While he is playing with the rats, she escapes on the boat. After Christine awakens, she witnesses the Phantom covered in his rats and petting them. He becomes angry and forcefully rapes her. When he returns to Christine, she refuses the role he has secured for her. During her performance as Juliet, the Phantom brings down the chandelier, injuring many audience members. The Phantom threatens Carlotta, the show's spoiled diva, not to sing but she ignores the warning. Christine grows angry with him, and as he leaves in the boat, she shouts that she hates him. He tells her to stay in the lair while he goes to secure the role of Juliet for her but she refuses to stay alone, causing him to storm out. After making love in his bed, the Phantom reveals his past to her. Christine sings the same song he heard her sing when he first saw her onstage. Upon arriving, she finds him playing an organ and he tells her to sing for him. One night, the Phantom calls to her and she descends to his lair across an underground lake in a boat. Later, she ruminates that she may be in love with both men. The aristocratic Baron Raoul De Chagny has also fallen in love with Christine, though at first Christine offers him only a platonic relationship. After leaving, he speaks to her using telepathy, and the two begin a romantic relationship. He appears before her and tells her that her voice fills his heart with light. The Phantom falls in love with the young opera singer Christine Daaé, while she sings alone on stage one night.

This child becomes the Phantom of the Opera, a misanthrope who kills anyone who ventures into his underground chambers, just as rats are killed whenever they venture above ground.

They raise him in the underground of the Opéra de Paris. In 1877 Paris, a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. Not to be confused with the 1987 film titled Opera (or Terror at the Opera) also directed by Dario Argento. However, there are many differences between the book and the film, so it is not considered to be a direct re-telling. The Phantom of the Opera ( Italian: Il fantasma dell'opera) is a 1998 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from the 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.
