The Phantom of the Opera (1910). Hence, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, based on it. Wherein the villain Phantom aka Erik is especially skilled at strangling people with the ...

Christine is drawn to Erik (a.k.a. the Phantom), a composer who shields himself from society in a lair beneath the Paris Opera House. Born with a facial deformity (hence the mask), he has yet to ...

The lesser-known musical takes a deeper look at Erik, also known as the Phantom, and how he came to be a tortured musical genius living in the shadows of the Paris Opera House. As Erik falls for ...

When Gaston Leroux wrote Le Fantôme de l’opéra in 1910, it is hard to imagine that he would have planned to immortalise the story as a Broadway musical. But in 1989, Andrew Lloyd Webber did just that ...

In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera arrived on the West End stage at Her Majesty's Theatre. Fast forward 25 years and Phantom has achieved global success, millions of viewers ...