Teacher John as The Phantom of the Opera
(French: Le Fantôme
de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published
as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. It
was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte.The novel is partly
inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century
and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton
in Hector Berlioz's 1841 production of Der Freischütz.
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