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royalavera · 2 days

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Come to me, angel, we're going to McDonalds

Thanks to Abby for the reference

#phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #poto #phanart #phantom art #poto art #erik #alw phantom #my art #royalavera #tpoto #el fantasma de la opera

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melit0n · 4 months

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Something that always confused me when I read TPOTO was why The Phantom chose box five out of all the private boxes to be his.

Out of all the seats in the house, box five is among the worst and would be (and still is) sold cheaply (average 65 francs at cheapest in 1880, now sold a between 10-25 euros nowadays) on general sale. A higher profit would've been made from a year-long booking, especially since there are multiple seats, so it would be 65 francs per person on a yearly booking no matter how many people are in there at once, but still not as much as other seats.

Visual wise, a good chunk of the left side of the stage is cut off and parts of the performance that would occur in the higher wings would be completely unseen, so, why choose it? Isn't the main point of going to go watch an Opera is to actually see the performance?

(A screenshot from the Palais Garnier's seat listing stating the best seats for viewing and the view from the box five via this video)

Having been there myself in late May, I found an answer to my own question and I'm gonna share it with you guys because maybe someone else was asking the same thing!

Although yes, the stage is half cut off, it's one of, if not the, best seats acoustic wise. You're a perfect distance from the orchestra as well as the stage for everything to sound just right. As much as The Phantom would've loved the operatic performance, I don't doubt he would've been more focused on the music itself as well as the vocals, and, mainly, Christine.

Further, although going to the opera was more of a social thing than an entertainment thing, so the boxes were built for aristocracy to be seen above all things, you can disappear from public view quite easily in that box. There are two to three rows of seats going backwards to the door, so all one would have to do to disappear from sight of anyone on stage or in the audience would be to just move a seat backwards (which means he wouldn't have been able to see the stage at all, but would still be able to hear everything perfectly well).

Plus, the box is located right at the end of the row of private boxes, as well as very close to entry and exit stairs, both public ones and private ones meant for stage hands and general workers.

All in all, those three reasons are why the box was chosen and kept in high priority for The Phantom, because he could quite literally disappear, like a ghost, by just moving himself in the box, as well as disappear out of the box and hear Christine almost perfectly.

#had a bit of a revelation so I thought I'd share it lol #maybe this'll be of use to someone but I thought it was cool!#tpoto #poto #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #palais garnier #gaston leroux #mel's rambles #1k

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high-quality-tiktoks · 1 year

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This is probably what plays in Christine’s mind during the climax of Love Never Dies💀

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #mashup #mashups #song #songs #taylor swift #i knew you were trouble #the phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera #tpoto #poto #jacobsutherland

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elvenforestwitch · 1 year

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#phantom #Phantom of the Opera #poto #phantom of the opera meme #funny #meme #my meme #christine daae #the phantom #the phantom of the opera #tpoto #erik #erik the phantom #erik poto #erik x christine #christine x erik

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nipuni · 2 years

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Haunted

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon on sept 1st 😊

#The Phantom of the Opera #Phantom of the Opera #poto #tpoto #erik #phantom #my art #🤫#don't look up!!

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cheesymorgue · 3 months

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I made a quick, silly doodle of how I pictured Erik. Well he looks a bit silly here, not that spooky. I just wanted to lay down a rough idea of my thoughts. This is mostly based on the book bc it's my favourite ha ha.

#i hope to draw him more soon and in a more serious way as well lol #the phantom of the opera #tpoto #phantom of the opera #erik #poto #the phantom #lerik #man idk how to tag this ha ha #sorry

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jaeausten · 3 days

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Fear can turn to love. You’ll learn to see the man behind the monster. This repulsive carcass which seems a beast, but secretly yearns for heaven, secretly, secretly, secretly. Oh Christine.

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achildsfirstsorrow · 9 days

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Erik with a skull, because why not? (Someone take it before he starts to recite Hamlet.)

Oddly enough this is probably my favourite POTO art I’ve done, but I’ll be back to drawing more book things soon.

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #erik phantom #opera ghost #I’m praying this doesn’t flop too hard but I’ve gotten my hopes up a tad too much #gaston leroux #leroux erik #erik the phantom #poto art #tpoto #ACFSart

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haredjarris · 11 months

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andrew lloyd webber and susan kay, i see your fatphobic erik and i raise you erik who is fascinated with and worships and covets fatness because he doesn’t have it and he probably never will. he sees folds of flesh in paintings and sculpture and the bodies of the opera singers and he yearns and aches

#phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #poto #tpoto #erik #erik the phantom #erik carriere #fatphobia mention /#he fucking hates his own thinness and how it only makes him look more dead #erik destler

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megajirachi151 · 1 year

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gayfroggyfernycabbage · 1 year

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melit0n · 3 months

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Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Chirstine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.

The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.

Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.

To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.

Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.

Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.

Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.

That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.

To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.

#I've re-read the original novel if you guys can't tell #will never not get a giggle out of Erik saying 'you great booby' to insult Rauol and Thr Persian #gaston leroux #tpoto #poto #the phantom of the opera #leroux erik #erik the phantom #erik poto #le fantôme de l'opéra

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high-quality-tiktoks · 11 months

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