(The PHANTOM emerges from behind the cross)
PHANTOM (very soft and enticing)
Wandering child
So lost
So helpless
Yearning for my
Guidance
(Bewildered, CHRISTINE looks up, and murmurs
Breathlessly):
[CHRISTINE:]
Angel . . . or father
Friend . . . or
Phantom . . . ?
Who is it there
Staring . . . ?
[PHANTOM:] (more and more hypnotic)
Have you forgotten your Angel . . .?
[CHRISTINE:]
Angel . . . oh, speak
What endless longings
Echo in this whisper . . .!
(RAOUL appears in the shadows and watches for a moment transfixed)
[PHANTOM:] (now drawing CHRISTINE towards him)
Too long you've wandered in winter
RAOUL (to himself a murmur)
Once again
She is his
[PHANTOM:]
Far from my far-reaching gaze
[RAOUL:]
Once again she returns
[CHRISTINE:] (Increasingly mesmerized)
Wildly my mind beats against you
[PHANTOM:]
You resist
[PHANTOM/CHRISTINE:]
Yet your/the soul
Obeys
[RAOUL:]
To the arms
Of her angel
Angel or demon
Still he calls her
Luring her back, from the grave
Angel or dark seducer . . .?
Who are you, strange
Angel . . .?
[PHANTOM:]
Angel of Music!
You denied me/I denied you
Turning from true beauty
Angel of Music!
Do not shun me/My protector
Come to your strange
Angel
[CHRISTINE:]
Angel of Music!
(CHRISTINE moves towards the figure of the
PHANTOM)
[PHANTOM:] (Beckoning her)
I am your Angel of Music
Come to me: Angel of Music
[RAOUL:] (Suddenly calling out)
Angel of darkness!
Cease this torment!
(Inexorably the PHANTOM continues to beckon
CHRISTINE)
[PHANTOM:]
I am your Angel of Music
Come to me: Angel of Music
[RAOUL:] (in desperation)
Christine! Christine listen to me!
Whatever you may believe, this man
This thing . . . is not your father!
(To the PHANTOM)
Let her go! For God's sake, let her go! Christine !
(Coming out of her trance CHRISTINE turns and
Mouths the words):
[CHRISTINE:]
Raoul