Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 00 - Prologue | 11:10 |
02 | 01 - Is it a Ghost? | 19:01 |
03 | 02 - The New Margarita | 18:56 |
04 | 03 - The Mysterious Reason | 15:47 |
05 | 04 - Box Five | 24:24 |
06 | 05 - The Enchanted Violin | 31:41 |
07 | 06 - A Visit to Box Five | 5:44 |
08 | 07 - Faust and What Followed | 26:24 |
09 | 08 - The Mysterious Brougham | 15:15 |
10 | 09 - At the Masked Ball | 19:24 |
11 | 10 - Forget the Name of the Man's Voice | 10:17 |
12 | 11 - Above the Trap-Doors | 14:28 |
13 | 12 - Apollo's Lyre | 42:34 |
14 | 13 - A Master Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover | 20:55 |
15 | 14 - The Singular Attitude of a Safety Pin | 11:31 |
16 | 15 - Christine! Christine! | 7:45 |
17 | 16 - Mme. Giry's Revelations | 22:05 |
18 | 17 - The Safety-Pin Again | 12:04 |
19 | 18 - The Commissary the Viscount and the Persian | 10:27 |
20 | 19 - The Viscount and the Persian | 13:05 |
21 | 20 - In the Cellars of the Opera | 29:16 |
22 | 21 - Interesting Vicissitudes | 29:26 |
23 | 22 - In the Torture Chamber | 14:10 |
24 | 23 - The Tortures Begin | 13:15 |
25 | 24 - Barrels! Barrels! | 22:23 |
26 | 25 - The Scorpion or the Grasshoper: Which? | 16:20 |
27 | 26 - The End of the Ghost's Love Story | 20:39 |
28 | 27 - Epilogue | 19:08 |
Notes
Running time: 8 hours and 38 minutes
Read by: Ralph Snelson
Book Coordinator: Ralph Snelson
Meta Coordinator: Leni
Proof Listener: Leni
Artwork
Cover: Still of Lon Chaney from the Phantom in the 1925 film production.
DVD Inset: Cover of the 1921 edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.
Recordings
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Before the music and the elaborate stage production, before Lon Chaney, Sr. frightened movie goers in the Roaring 20’s, The Phantom of the Opera was a book written by the French author Gaston Leroux in 1909 and 1910. Taking away nothing from the success of the musical or the movie or other less well known adaptions, it is a shame that the book proved so popular for adaptation, because it has been overshadowed by the musical and films. It’s a particular shame because the book by Leroux is a beautiful, poignant, suspenseful piece of art with a Gallic tone of love wrapped in danger, wrapped in tragedy, wrapped again in love that has seduced the English speaking world for centuries. Christine is the ingénue, who takes the stage of the Paris Opera and scores a brilliant success. Her former lover attends the performance, hears the beauty of her voice and falls in love again. The two plan to wed. On a subsequent night, as the prima donna, Carlotta, performs in Faust, the massive chandelier falls into the audience. In the ensuing confusion the Phantom, who until then was but an incorporeal presence, kidnaps Christine and takes her away to his hiding place in dark recesses deep beneath the Opera House. Having made himself known up to that time only through letters and malevolent acts, he becomes flesh and bone for Christine. He shows himself to her, and in time he will remove his mask and show her his face. The story is a love story in the deepest, most mysterious sense of the word. It portrays a love that is and is not dependent on superficial or surface gifts. Rather it portrays the many mansions within a single heart, with its consequent confusion of devotion, jealousy, possessiveness, passion, desire, and heat, mixed in their measure, contradictory and utterly human. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936592 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923735 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box |
Author | Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927) |
Year | 1910 |
Recording | |
Read by | Ralph Snelson |
Length | 8 hours 35 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Phantom of the Opera
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Product Code: DB-1080
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