PHANTOM : THE FINAL CURTAIN - PROLOGUE

Once upon a time, a young Swedish soprano had lost her father and the father had sworn on his deathbed that once in heaven, he would send the angel of music to guide her. And one did. One came in the form of a Phantom that haunted the Opera Populaire. He served both as her teacher and her angel. Christine Daae and this Phantom of the Opera began an adventure together into the night. She sang and he loved, she betrayed and he killed, and near the end of Act One of their story, she had to leave him for another.

Then came Act Two. There was a night beneath a moonless sky…she came and found where he hid just before Christine was wed to the Vicomte de Chagny, a childhood playmate. Ten years later, and fate and fame find the two together again. The Phantom discovers his long-lost son, and she sings for him one last time. Fate and tragedy struck again, and Christine is dead.

"I think it's beautiful. So strange, yet beautiful."

Act Three finds Gustave Daae, named for Christine's father, a teenager who couldn't love music again after it had taken his mother. A grief-stricken boy who was more like his brooding father now than his mother. But as the audience of a redheaded soprano named Melody, Gustave may just find his angel of music.

"Your music. It teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away, and you're not here!'

The Phantom had not seen much light after the death of his beloved. In fact, the only light in his life after that came from that of his son, his show Phantasma, and the music he writes. He struggles with the twists and turns of fatherhood and attempts every day to get his son to sing again. But just as he tries so very hard to leave his hurt behind, more devils of his past come to seek vengeance upon him and his family. And he will do everything in his power to keep his son safe.

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime…

This is the story of the Phantom of the Opera.

And this is The Final Curtain.

Hello. My name is Gustave Daae. My father is the Phantom of the Opera.