Whether you prefer the 1925 movie featuring Lon Chaney , the original Broadway production , or the 2004 Gerard Butler remaking , there ’s no question that the pendant clangor aspect is one of the most iconic second inThe Phantom of the Opera .
Though such a aspect may seem improbable , generator Gaston Leroux claim stirring from the Paris Opera House , the Palais Garnier , for his 1910 novelThe Phantom of the Opera . That includes some of the more fantastical moments , from the chandelier to the hush-hush lake .
Though there ’s no island in the center for an opera house house ghoul to inhabit , there is a passably large organic structure of water underneath the Palais Garnier . After undercoat was broken for the opera business firm in 1861 , workers and engineer were stumped by the body of water that continuously burble up from the earth they were trying to clear . In the end , they just worked around it . In 2010 , Pierre Vidal , curator of the opera house house ’s museum and depository library , toldThe Telegraphthat workers finally hand up trying to pump the site dry . rather , they built a Brobdingnagian stone water tank to domiciliate the displaced water .
The tank is a far war cry from the eerily romantic , candle - fire up haven inPhantom . Due to modern daylight wellness and safety codes , the area is now brightly lighted . And its use is actually quite practical — it ’s where local firefighters rail for underwater rescue missions .
Now , about that chandelier . As far as we acknowledge , no one has ever deliberately weaken the seven - ton bronze and crystal mend . But in 1896 , a counterweight from the monumental chandelier did fall , killing one person .
There may be more nonfictional prose mixed in with Leroux ’s story . Legend has it that Leroux gave a deathbed confession in 1927 , claiming that what he had written 17 years earlier was absolutely true . While there is enough crossover between fact and fiction to make you marvel , Vidalsaidno worker or patron has ever claimed to have encountered a ghost at the Paris Opera : “ Although we do blame the Phantom as a gag if something incomprehensible take place . ”
A interpretation of this taradiddle ran in 2015 ; it has been update for 2021 .
