“Bonsoir mesdames et messieurs and welcome to the opening night of our 2025 season at the Opera de Paris! It is my undying pleasure to have your company tonight as we solve the greatest and most peculiar mystery in classical music – who is Le Fantôme de l'Opéra? Tonight, we dispense with that vacuous and inane musical pap of Andrew Lloyd Webber (that charlatan surely owes me millions in unpaid royalties!) as we return to the original story, the best-selling 1910 novel of Gaston Leroux.” – The Phantom

Acclaimed concert pianist and storyteller Matthew Shiel collaborates with renowned opera singers and acclaimed Shanghainese Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen on a show inspired by the greatest classical music mystery every told - Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1910).

Venetian masks, operatic arias, dramatic silhouettes and the most haunting piano pieces ever written (including Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata) meet alongside romantic candlelight recitations of Gaston Leroux's original novel and an ethereal digital art exhibition designed by acclaimed Chinese artist and Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen – to create a simultaneously thrilling and terrifying musical experience designed to seduce your senses - and lure you away to the phantom's lair.

"Christine, you must love me!"