Christine fills in as lead singer at the Opera gala and stuns the audience with an unexpected miraculous performance.

Stagehand Joseph Buquet is found hanged in the third cellar of the Opera House.

Retiring managers Debienne and Poligny privately warn new managers Moncharmin and Richard about the Opera Ghost's demands.

Raoul overhears an unknown man's voice inside Christine's locked dressing room declaring his love for her.

At midnight in the Perros-Guirec graveyard, a mysterious figure plays enchanting violin music at Christine's father's tomb.

La Carlotta croaks repeatedly like a toad onstage during a high-profile Faust performance at the Opera.

The Opera chandelier crashes into the audience during a performance and Christine disappears from the stage.

Raoul confronts Christine at the Opera's masked ball, accusing her of hiding a secret lover from him.

Christine vanishes through her dressing room mirror in front of Raoul's helpless eyes.

On the Opera rooftop, Christine reveals that Erik, a scarred and masked man, is the true Angel of Music.

The Opera lights go out during Christine's lead performance and when they return, she has vanished from the stage.

The Persian leads Raoul through the revolving mirror in Christine's dressing room and into the Opera's secret cellars.

Raoul and the Persian fall through a trap door and land inside Erik's underground torture chamber.

Christine turns the scorpion dial to accept Erik's marriage proposal, flooding the gunpowder-filled cellar below.

Dying Erik visits the Persian to reveal he freed Christine and Raoul after Christine showed him genuine kindness.

The story begins when Christine Daaé delivers a miraculous performance at the Paris Opera, drawing the attention of her childhood love Raoul and revealing a mysterious new singing talent. Strange disasters follow at the Opera, including a fatal accident and Christine's disappearances, all tied to the phantom known as the Opera Ghost. Raoul pursues Christine across Paris and eventually learns the ghost is a real, scarred man named Erik who has been teaching Christine in secret. When Christine vanishes for a second time mid-performance, Raoul enlists the Persian to descend into the Opera's underground cellars to find her. They become trapped in Erik's torture chamber while Christine faces an ultimatum: marry Erik or he will destroy the entire Opera House. The crisis resolves only through Christine's act of compassion, freeing herself and Raoul at the cost of Erik's life.

The headline events of Christine, Erik, and Raoul's fatal triangle.

Young ballet dancers at the gala performance report seeing the Opera Ghost lurking in the wings backstage.

Raoul visits Christine's crowded dressing room after the gala, but she coldly pretends not to recognize him.

Raoul declares his love for Christine at a Perros-Guirec inn and she locks herself in her room in tears.

Raoul faints when a fleeing masked figure turns and reveals its death's-head mask at the Perros churchyard.

Managers Moncharmin and Richard each briefly glimpse a different shocking shadowy figure while inspecting Box Five.

The Opera Ghost sends La Carlotta two threatening letters ordering her to fake illness and withdraw from the performance.

After the chandelier disaster shakes their confidence, the managers reinstate Mme. Giry to her post as box-keeper.

Raoul visits Mamma Valérius and discovers Christine has been receiving nightly singing lessons from the Angel of Music.

Raoul spots Christine in a speeding carriage on a Paris laneway, but she does not stop for him.

Raoul and Christine's engagement is announced publicly, and Count Philippe de Chagny moves to break off the match.

Raoul fires his pistol at two blazing eyes at the foot of his bed, believing it is Erik, but kills only a cat.

Police commissary Mifroid arrives at the Opera to question the managers and staff about Christine's sudden disappearance.

Mme. Giry demonstrates to the furious managers exactly how the ghost swaps envelopes and pickpockets money from Richard's coat.

Erik activates blazing lights in the torture chamber, trapping Raoul and the Persian in a disorienting mirror illusion.

Count Philippe de Chagny is found drowned beside the Opera's underground lake.

While the main plot races toward its climax, a web of secondary events shapes every character's fate. The Opera's superstitious artists see and fear the ghost long before the managers take the threat seriously, and Raoul's jealousy is ignited the moment he spots Christine being distant and unavailable to him. In Perros-Guirec, Raoul pushes Christine on her secrets before being frightened out of consciousness by the masked figure at the graveyard. Back in Paris, the ghost methodically sabotages Carlotta, terrorizes the managers in their private box, and orchestrates Christine's second disappearance while Raoul descends into paranoid anguish. The investigation after Christine's vanishing exposes how thoroughly the ghost has corrupted the Opera's daily workings, from pickpocketed envelopes to a sedated gas crew. The resolution is bittersweet, as Christine and Raoul escape, but Philippe de Chagny pays for his disbelief with his life in the underground lake.

The supporting incidents and confrontations that drive the mystery forward.

A masked stranger at the retiring managers' dinner speaks about Buquet's death, terrifying Debienne and Poligny.

New managers Moncharmin and Richard receive letters from the Opera Ghost demanding monthly payments and exclusive use of Box Five.

The managers fire Mme. Giry from her post after dismissing her detailed account of hosting the Opera Ghost.

Christine confides to Raoul in Perros-Guirec that the Angel of Music visits her daily for private singing lessons.

Managers Richard and Moncharmin hear the ghost's disembodied voice whispering directly into their ears inside Box Five.

After months of keeping Raoul at a distance, Christine sends him a letter inviting him to the masked ball.

Christine and Raoul secretly agree to a pretend engagement lasting one month before his North Pole expedition.

Christine tells Raoul on the Opera rooftop how Erik first led her through the mirror into his underground house.

In a moment of irresistible curiosity, Christine tears off Erik's mask and exposes his hideously scarred face.

Moncharmin safety-pins the ghost's allowance to Richard's coat, but every last franc vanishes without a thief being identified.

Mifroid proposes Philippe abducted Christine, and the Persian intercepts Raoul before he can race off to chase his brother.

Erik gives Christine until the following evening to accept his marriage proposal or he will destroy the Opera.

Raoul and the Persian break open a barrel in the cellar beneath the torture chamber and find it packed with gunpowder.

Christine allows the weeping Erik to kiss her forehead, giving him the first true gesture of affection in his life.

The narrator finds Erik's skeleton in the Opera cellars with Christine's gold ring returned to his finger.

The story's most pivotal moments are the quiet revelations and desperate choices that sit beneath the surface of the main action. From the chilling dinner appearance of the masked stranger to the fired Mme. Giry, the ghost's reality is slowly forced upon those who refuse to see it. Christine's confession about the Angel of Music, her account of the night she was taken underground, and the moment she tore away Erik's mask each reframe what the audience thought they understood about her relationship with him. The managers' obsessive trap to catch the ghost pickpocketing ends in total failure, finally breaking their skepticism. Deep underground, Raoul and the Persian uncover a cellar of gunpowder and learn the true scale of Erik's desperation. The story turns not on violence but on a single forehead kiss, a gesture so small it dissolves Erik's lifelong rage and sets Christine and Raoul free.

The discoveries, confessions, and decisions that reshape every character's fate.