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Fictional character

Christine Daaé
The Phantom of the Opera grapheme
Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera, alongside Erik, The Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney).
First advent	The Phantom of the Opera (1909)
Created by	Gaston Leroux
In-universe information
Occupation	Singer
Family	Madame Valérius (adoptive mother) Gustave Daaé (begetter, deceased)
Spouse	Viscount Raoul de Chagny
Meaning other	Viscount Raoul de Chagny
Nationality	Swedish

Christine Daaé is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and of the various adaptations of the work. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera and Viscount Raoul de Chagny both fall in love with her.

Graphic symbol history [edit]

Biography [edit]

Christine Daaé was born in a town near Uppsala, Sweden. Her mother died when she was six years onetime. Raised by her father, they travelled through rural Sweden, wandering from fair to fair,^[1] where he played the violin and she sang. They were discovered at ane of these fairs by Professor Valérius, who took them to Gothenburg and so to Paris, providing for Christine's education.

Das Phantom der Oper, Dt. EA 1912, Albert Langen, München

Christine was extremely close to her father, who told her Scandinavian fairy-tales; the tale of the "Angel of Music" was her favorite. Christine entered the Paris Conservatoire and trained for iv years to become an opera vocaliser to please her male parent and Mamma Valérius, the bedridden wife of the late Professor. However, by the end of the four years, she had lost her passion for singing and the music.

When Christine arrived at the Opéra Garnier, she was described every bit "sounding like a rusty hinge", but i person institute the beauty subconscious in her voice. When Erik, the Phantom of the Opera began to tutor her, he told her that he was the "Angel of Music" of whom her father had spoken. She believed him, and he inspired her soul dorsum into her voice. Having been singing small roles with the Opera for some months without making much impression on audiences, Christine had a spectacular success at a gala at the opera in place of the singer Carlotta, who had fallen sick. Christine's singing was described every bit "seraphic".

Christine became torn between her loyalty and sympathy for her mentor, Erik, and her love for her childhood friend Viscount Raoul de Chagny.

In the Lofficier translation of the novel, Christine's age is given as 15 years erstwhile. However, this is a mistranslation of a passage that says her heart was "every bit pure every bit that of a 15-year-old". The evidence of Christine's childhood friendship with Raoul, and her studies at the Paris Conservatoire, put her historic period at 20 years old.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera [edit]

Christine is a chorus girl, who becomes the object of obsession, passion and dearest for the mysterious Phantom of the Opera. He becomes her mentor, and with his aid, she is chosen to supercede the company'south prima donna, Carlotta. When she falls in dear with her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, the Phantom kidnaps Christine in a jealous rage and drags her down to his lair. She is forced to choose between the Phantom and Raoul, just her pity for the Phantom moves him to complimentary them both and permit them to abscond. In the original Westward End and Broadway productions, she was portrayed by Sarah Brightman.

2004 picture [edit]

The film version of the musical follows the musical's script closely, but Christine's age is reduced. Her gravemark says that she was born in 1854, and the beginning of the picture shows the setting as 1870, making her about xvi years old when the events of the movie take place.

Father'south name [edit]

In the novel and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, we never learn Christine's father's first proper name. In the novel, he is just referred to every bit "Daddy" or "Daddy Daaé", and in the musical, his gravestone only has his last name on it. In the 2004 motion picture, he is called Gustave, and in Sarah Brightman'southward music video version of "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", his name is Charles.

Films [edit]

The novel has been adjusted several times. The outset picture show iteration was produced in Germany in 1915, with Nils Chrisander (1884–1947) every bit the Phantom and Aud Egede-Nissen (1893–1974) as Christine. Many critics consider the moving-picture show of 1925 by Carl Laemmle'southward Universal Pictures as the nigh successful. The function of the Phantom played here by Lon Chaney. The same studio tried in 1943 with a sound film of Arthur Lubin to follow this success. The film used to a big extent the notwithstanding existing scenes of the silent film. Claude Rains played the phantom.

In 1960, a Spanish society turned a very complimentary adaptation of the subject nether the title El Fantasma de la Operetta . In 1962, British production visitor Hammer Films focused on the horror genre.

Some other accommodation was produced in 1974 by 20th Century Play a joke on, who moved the event to New York and significantly altered the story to be more Faustian. This film was released as Phantom of the Paradise, with Jessica Harper in the Christine-esque function of Phoenix, and William Finley as the eponymous Phantom.

The 1989 version, Jill Schoelen played Christine opposite Robert Englund in the title role.

In 1998, Italian horror film manager Dario Argento cast his daughter Asia Argento every bit Christine.

Most recently, in 2004, Joel Schumacher produced a film version inspired by the musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber. This iteration starred Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum as the Phantom and Christine. Originally, in that location was already a filming based on the musical in the early 1990s, with the principal actors of the premiere: Michael Crawford as the phantom and Sarah Brightman equally Christine. Brightman was married to Lloyd Webber at the fourth dimension, just before long earlier the planned pre-production the marriage was dissolved and the filming was cancelled.

Popular movies [edit]

Year	Title	Genre	Original Title	Manager	Christine Daaé	Title part
1915	The Phantom of the Opera	Silent drama	The Phantom of the Opera	Ernst Matray	Aud Egede-Nissen	Nils Chrisander
1925	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror	The Phantom of the Opera	Rupert Julian	Mary Philbin	Lon Chaney sen.
1937	Ye ban ge sheng	Horror	Ye ban ge sheng	Ma-Xu Weibang	Hu Ping	Gu Menghe
1943	Phantom of the Opera	Horror, music	Phantom of the Opera	Arthur Lubin	Susanna Foster	Claude Rains
1962	The Riddle of the Eerie Mask	Horror	The Phantom of the Opera	Terence Fisher	Heather Sears	Herbert Lom
1983	The Phantom of Budapest	Horror	Phantom of the Opera	Robert Markowitz	Jane Seymour	Maximilian Schell
1987	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror Animation	The Phantom of the Opera	Al Guest, Jean Mathieson	Collette Proctor	Aiden Grennell
1989	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror	Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera	Dwight H. Little	Jill Schoelen	Robert Englund
1990	The Phantom of the Opera	Drama Miniseries	Gaston Leroux'south The Phantom of the Opera	Tony Richardson	Teri Polo	Charles Trip the light fantastic
1998	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror	Il Fantasma dell'opera	Dario Argento	Asia Argento	Julian Sands
2004	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher	Emmy Rossum	Gerard Butler

Loose Adaptations [edit]

year	title	original championship	Director	championship role
1974	The Phantom of Hollywood	The Phantom of Hollywood	Gene Levitt	Jack Cassidy
1974	Phantom of the Paradise	Phantom of the Paradise	Brian De Palma	William Finley
1989	Phantom of the Mall: Eric'due south Revenge	Phantom of the Mall: Eric'south Revenge	Richard Friedman	Derek Rydall
1989	Phantom of the Ritz	Phantom of the Ritz	Allen Plone	Joshua Sussman

Basis [edit]

Towards the end of his life, Leroux claimed the character was based on a real opera vocaliser "whose real proper noun I hid under that of Christine Daaé".^[2] Information technology is likely he was referring to the Swedish singer Christina Nilsson (1843-1921) (sometimes known every bit "Christine Nilsson"),^[three] whose real life heavily reflects details in the fictitious Christine Daaé's history.^{[iv] [5]} Nilsson, like the fictional Daaé, was born in rural Sweden, and both were discovered by a well-to-do patron performing in a Swedish market place: Nilsson singing along to her blood brother'southward violin playing in Ljungby, Daaé singing along to her father's violin playing in (fictitious) Ljimby. Both were taken under the protection of a family named "Valerius" in Gothenburg, and both were brought to Paris by their respective patrons for operatic preparation.^{[6] [seven] [8]} Fifty-fifty the rivalry betwixt the youthful and inexperienced Christine Daaé and the seasoned veteran diva Mme Carlotta, and specifically the replacement of Carlotta with Daaé in the function of Marguerite in Gounod'south Faust, loosely reflects the public competition between Christina Nilsson and the older Caroline Miolan-Carvalho over the role at the Paris Opera in 1868-1869,^{[nine] [10]} even to the point of using ideas and language from gimmicky reviews of Nilsson's performances.^{[eleven] [12]}

Actresses [edit]

The first extra to portray Christine Daaé was Aud Egede-Nissen in the 1916 High german silent version by Ernst Matray, Das Gespenst im Opernhaus or Das Phantom der Oper.

• Mary Philbin played Christine in the 1925 American silent version by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera.
• Susanna Foster played Christine DuBois in the 1943 Technicolor version, Phantom of the Opera.
• Heather Sears played Christine Charles in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera.
• Jane Seymour played Christine in the 1983 TV movie version.
• Christina Collier played her in Ken Hill'south camp-classical musical version in 1984.

• Sarah Brightman debuted the role in the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
• Patti Cohenour debuted the role in the 1986 Broadway production, alternating with Sarah Brightman. Cohenour was thus the offset American Christine and went on to reprise the part for the First Canadian National Tour.
• Glory Crampton originated the role in the much revived Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit 1990 musical Phantom.
• Jill Schoelen played Christine Day in Dwight H. Little's 1989 film version.
• Rebecca Caine debuted the role in the Canadian production (1989) and featured on the Canadian Bandage album.
• Teri Polo took the office in the 1990 television miniseries version.
• American Janet Marie Chvatal performed the role in 1991–1992 in the German version of Das Phantom der Oper in Vienna, Austria.^[13]
• Asia Argento played her in the 1998 motion picture.
• Claudia Cota played her twice in The Phantom of the Opera (musical 2000) by Morris Gilbert in Mexico and Player her on Phantom of the Opera (musical 2009) in Argentina by Harold Prince.
• Emmy Rossum played her in the 2004 pic version of the Lloyd Webber musical.
• Sierra Boggess starting time played Christine in the 2006 version of the Lloyd Webber musical, Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular. In 2010 she originated the role in Lloyd Webber's sequel, Love Never Dies. She next played Christine in the 25th Ceremony concert, The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, in 2011, on Broadway in 2013 and 2014, and in Paris to celebrate the show's 30th ceremony in 2016.
• Samantha Hill served as alternate for the role during Boggess' tenure, and took over the atomic number 82 on Broadway from 2012 to 2013.
• Kimilee Bryant played the role in the Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway (1994–95; 1998; 2009–2012 occasionally) and in the Swiss (in German; 1995–96), U.Due south. National Bout (1996–98) and Toronto (1999) productions.
• Gina Beck played the function in the Lloyd Webber musical in London.
• Sofia Escobar played the role of Christine Daaé, in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, from 2010 to 2013.
• Jennifer Hope Wills played Christine in the Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway and on a Canadian tour of the musical.
• Julia Udine played Christine on Broadway in the Lloyd Webber musical from 2014 to 2016, after playing the role in the North American tour in 2013–2014.
• Ali Ewoldt played Christine on Broadway in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from 2016 to November 2018. She is the first Asian-American actress to exist bandage in the lead role.^[14]
• Kaley Ann Voorhees played Christine in the Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway from Nov 2018 to October 2019.
• Meghan Picerno currently plays Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.
• Kelly Mathieson played Christine at the original theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre in London'south West End in 2019.^[15]
• Holly-Anne Hull played Christine on the U.k. and Ireland bout 2020 for a mere 13 performances before the covid-19 pandemic shut down the tour. She is transferring to the West End in Her Majesty'due south Theatre in as the alternate Christine with performances commencing from 27 July 2021.
• Lucy St Louis will be playing Christine in Her Majesty'southward Theatre with performances commencing from 27 July 2021.
• Emilie Kouatchou is currently the alternate Christine on Broadway. She is the starting time Blackness actress to exist cast in the role, with her first performance taking identify on October 27.^[sixteen]

References [edit]

1. ^ Conrad, Joseph; Lawrence, D. H.; Eliot, George; Tolstoy, Leo; Joyce, James; Dickens, Charles; Austen, Jane; Stoker, Bram; Wilde, Oscar; Classics, Golden Deer (fifteen April 2017). 50 Classics you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Aureate Edition) (Gilded Deer Classics) [Included audiobooks link + Active toc]. ISBN9782377870462.
2. ^ The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. 8 March 2012. ISBN978-0-19-969457-0.
3. ^ "Nilsson, Christine (1843–1921) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
4. ^ Gifts of Passage: What the Dying Tell Us with the Gifts They Leave Behind. Thomas Nelson. 31 August 2009. ISBN9781418576165.
5. ^ The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. 8 March 2012. ISBN978-0-xix-969457-0.
6. ^ The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. eight March 2012. ISBN978-0-19-969457-0.
7. ^ The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature. 1870.
8. ^ In Nilsson's case, the vocaliser and instructor Adelaïde Valerius, Baronne Leuhusen and her sister the creative person Bertha Valerius. [one]
9. ^ Paris and the Musical: The City of Calorie-free on Stage and Screen. Routledge. 17 March 2021. ISBN9780429878626.
10. ^ The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. viii March 2012. ISBN978-0-nineteen-969457-0.
11. ^ Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust. Cambridge University Press. 31 March 2011. ISBN9781139495851.
12. ^ Leroux was liberal in adapting the Nilsson-Carvalho rivalry. Although in 1868-69 Nilsson was younger and less experienced than Miolan-Carvalho (for whom the role of Marguerite had been written ten years earlier), she was already a well-known operatic star in Paris. As for the production run of Faust, it was in reality an awkward experience for Nilsson, who received mixed reviews. [ii]
13. ^ Program book for the Vienna Product of Phantom of the Opera (Nov 1990 / 2. Publication October 1991) Programmbuch zur Aufführung des Musicals Das Phantom der Oper
14. ^ "Broadway's Phantom of the Opera Announces Commencement Asian-American Christine | Playbill". Playbill. 26 May 2016. Retrieved xix January 2017.
15. ^ "Jonathan Roxmouth, Meghan Picerno Lead THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Asian Tour in Manila; Total Cast Announced".
16. ^ "Emilie Kouatchou Makes History equally the Kickoff Black Adult female to Star in 'The Phantom of the Opera' on Broadway".

External links [edit]

• Leroux, Gaston (2004). Wolf, Leonard (ed.). The Phantom of the Opera. I Books. ISBN0-7434-9836-4.
• The Phantom of the Opera free due east-book, Project Gutenberg
• "Phantom of the Opera FAQ". How one-time are the Phantom and Christine?. Archived from the original on fifteen October 2009. Retrieved two October 2009.
• "Phantom Appreciation Society". a history of. Archived from the original on xx December 2005. Retrieved thirteen March 2005.

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