Who was the phantom of the opera? What did he do mostly?

Answer 1

He's a deformed ghost that lives in an opera house. He "possesses" a young singer named Christine. He falls in love with her and tries to take her away to his dark world. She shows him some kindness and manages to escape from him. There's also a lot more that goes on in the story. It's a musical, and it's really, really good. My favorite broadway show!

Answer 2

Similiar to the previous answer. He's was a deformed child that Madame Giry led hid in the opera house when she was a young ballerina. Madame Giry brings up a young orphan named Christine Daae, all her life she is trained by a invisible ghost she thinks is her father. As a man he listens and composes opera beneath the paris opera house...the opera populaire. He hears a young soprano Christine and falls in love with her voice. He is the teacher who taught her all of her life. He lures her through a mirror passage in her dressing room. He elevates her career making her the principal singer...and by getting the lead out of the way. At first Christine is intrigued by him but later he becomes obsessed with her, and she is frightened. When he discovers she fell for a childhood love Raoul, he feels betrayed. He murders several who have been against him in the opera house. Through out it is a love and hate thing - Christine loves him and hates him. He is mad for her...in the end though he lets her go. Excellient musical, great story... reading the story gives you even more insight to the musical.

Answer 3

The Leroux novel gives few details about Erik's past, although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book. Erik himself laments the fact that his mother was horrified by his appearance and never allowed his father to see him. It is also revealed that "Erik" was not, in fact, his birth name, but given or found "by accident", as Erik himself tells in the novel.

Most of Erik's history is revealed by a mysterious figure, known through most of the novel as "the Persian" or "Daroga", who had been a local police chief in Persia and who followed Erik to Paris; some of the rest is discussed in the novel's Epilogue. Erik was born in a town outside of Rouen, France. He was born hideously deformed, and was a "subject of horror and terror" for his entire life. He ran away as a boy and fell in with a band of gypsies, making his living as an attraction in freak shows, in which he was known as "le mort vivant (the living dead)." During his time with the tribe, Erik became a great illusionist, magician and ventriloquist. His reputation for these skills and for his beautiful singing voice spread quickly, and one day a fur trader mentioned him to the Shah of Persia. The Shah ordered the Persian to fetch Erik and bring him to the palace.

The Shah-in-Shah commissioned Erik, who proved himself a gifted architect, with the task of constructing an elaborate palace. The edifice was designed with so many trap doors and secret rooms that not even the slightest whisper could be considered private. The architecture was arranged for the purpose of carrying sound to a myriad of hidden locations, so that one never knew who might be listening in. At some point under the Shah's employment, Erik was also a royal assassin, using a unique noose referred to as the Punjab Lasso.

The Persian dwells on the vague horrors that existed at Mazenderan rather than going in depth into the actual circumstances involved. The Shah pleased with Erik's work is determined that no one else should have such a palace as his and orders Erik to be blinded. Thinking that Erik could still make another palace even without his eye sight the Shah ordered Erik's execution. It was only by the intervention of the daroga (the Persian) that Erik was able to escape.

Erik then went to Constantinople and was employed by its ruler, helping build certain edifices in the Yildiz-Kiosk, among other things. But he had to leave the city for the same reason he left Mazenderan: he knew too much.

By this time Erik was tired of palace life and wanted to "live like everybody else." For a time he worked as a contractor, building "ordinary houses with ordinary bricks". He eventually bid on a contract to help with the construction of the Palais Garnier, commonly known as the Paris Opera House.

During the construction he was able to make a sort of playground for himself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre.
The employees claim that the opera house is haunted by a mysterious ghost who wreaks chaos and destruction when displeased. Erik, who created the "Phantom of the Opera" (Opera Ghost in the Mattos and Bair translation), uses this facade to send the managers of the Opera Garnier repeated threats of catastrophe should they not pay him a monthly salary of 20,000 francs and perpetually reserve Box Five for him at every show. This arrangement, unbroken during the many years of the manager's tenure, is abruptly terminated when two new proprietors, Armand Moncharmin and Firmin Richard, take over the opera house and refuse to give in to what they view as the empty threats, thinking that it is a practical joke by former managers.
Meanwhile, Erik has taken on a protégée, Christine Daaé. He explains to her that he is the "Angel of Music," a heavenly spirit sent by her dead father to help her, and proceeds to give her regular voice lessons through the wall of her remote dressing room.Christine quickly finds that there is nothing angelic about Erik; she learns with disappointment that he is "neither an angel nor a genius," only that he and the ghost are one and the same (and comes to know him as malicious, volatile, dangerous and somewhat bitter, yet also brilliant and pitiful). She is infuriated at having been deceived, and demands to be set free.Eventually, Christine shows Erik genuine sympathy and displays an act of love by crying with him, not running away when he takes off his mask, and even going so far as to kiss him on the forehead.Right before his death, Erik delivers a dramatic monologue expressing his grief, in which he describes how Christine was the only woman to let him kiss her, his brief euphoria when she kissed him.

Answer 4

what the guy in the movie?
well he was in tomb raider, the second one i think, thats all i know