The overture music starts.Īs the chandelier is raised, the opera house becomes restored and we go back in time to the year 1870.At the Paris Emerald Clover Opera House in 1911, an auction of old props is underway. (The cover comes off the chandelier and it lights up.
Perhaps we can frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination. Our workshops have repaired it and wired parts of it for the new electric light. We are told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained. Will you still play, when all the rest of us are dead.?ĪUCTIONEER: Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. RAOUL: (sung in head) A collector's piece indeed. Sold, for 30 francs to the Vicomte de Chagny. (Madame Giry shakes her head) Selling at 30 francs then, 30 once, 30 twice.
This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre, still in working order.ĪUCTIONEER: May I commence at 15 francs? 15, thank you.
Attached, the figure of a monkey in persian robes playing the cymbals. A papier mache musical box in the shape of a barrel organ. Your number sir? Lot 665 ladies and gentlemen. Lot 664 a wooden pistol and 3 human om the 1831 production of Robert le Diable by Meyerbeer. A poster from this house's production of Hannibal by Chalumau.ĪUCTIONEER: Do I have 10 francs? 5 then.
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