Joseph Buquet, chief scene-shifter, describes the Opera Ghost.Īlthough very little has been revealed about Erik's past, it's known that he was once employed as an architect by a young sadistic Sultana. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears. His nose is so little worth talking about that you can't see it side-face and the absence of that nose is a horrible thing to look at. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. Gifted with an angelic singing voice, as well as ventriloquism skills, he took advantage of superstitions and elaborate deceits to manipulate those around him.

Wearing a mask to cover his hideous deformity, Erik lived clandestinely in underground catacombs beneath the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris during the 1870s having been previously involved in the construction of that same building. the Phantom of the Opera, is the identity assumed by a man born with an unknown genetic condition which causes his face to resemble a fleshy human skull.

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