Christine Daae, an opera singer, and her lover really exsisted by there strange disapearance thirty years before Gaston Lereaux wrote the book was connected with a lake with a man referred to once as Erik (aka Phantom) 's body in it below the theatre, mysterious notes demanding salary and the availability of box no. 5 signed O.G., and many more. Read about it!
2006-07-31 09:46:36 · 12 answers · asked by Samantha Avansworth 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
Good question, and some documentation below, although I am still searching for the Erik reference, however, I did find her picture!!!
"The real Christine Daaé
Christine Nilsson
Leroux took much of Christine Daaé's childhood background from the opera singer Christine Nilsson. Nilsson was born Kristina Jonasdotter in 1843, in a small village in Sweden. She sang at fairs, where she came to the attention of Madame Adelaide Valerius-Leuhusen, who provided for her education. When she began singing lessons in Paris she changed her name to Christina Nilsson, and went on to become an internationally acclaimed opera star, said to have sung like a goddess. Her second husband was a Count."
2006-07-31 09:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by Michael R 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well Gaston Leroux's ORIGINAL Phantom of the Opera was indeed based off of some real events. Christine Daae's character is based off of a young swedish opera singer named Kristina Nillson who came to the Paris Opera house to sing. The Chandalier truly did crash at the paris opera. There ARE catacombs and water underneath the paris opera house and there was supposedly a skeleton found wearing a gold ring on it's finger, just like Erik at the end of Gaston Leroux's Phantom. I believe :)
2016-03-27 10:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Way!! Wow, that's awesome!! I love the Phantom of the Opera!
2006-07-31 10:45:27 · answer #3 · answered by C O 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I DO know that the underground lake does actually exist beneath the theatre.
2006-07-31 09:50:46 · answer #4 · answered by Maya M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did a project on it a few years ago for French, it's a quite interesting legend.
2006-07-31 16:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by me41987 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I knew about the chandelier actually falling.
2006-07-31 17:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by Everyday 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I knew that it's really cool!
2006-07-31 12:10:35 · answer #7 · answered by Meme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-07-31 09:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by hmmmm. <3 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did anyone fall asleep reading about it in the newspaper when it happened?
2006-07-31 09:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes, i've read the book too!!
2006-07-31 10:59:41 · answer #10 · answered by music = life 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋