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Mme Giry
The leading soprano at the Paris Opera House has a beautiful, yet emotionless voice, which both the narrator and the Phantom criticize harshly for its lack of feeling. It is Carlotta’s absence one evening, because of illness, that allows Christine Daaé to triumph at a gala performance. Carlotta becomes one of the Phantom’s victims herself after she disregards the Phantom’s anonymous note enjoining her not to perform that evening. Jealous of Christine’s success and suspicious of her motives, Carlotta assumes that Christine is plotting against her. However, when Carlotta performs, she is affected by a mysterious, Phantom-induced “croak” that causes her voice to break, disrupting her performance and causing dismay in the audience. Traumatized, Carlotta disappears for a period but, moved by a vengeful desire to sneer at Christine, returns briefly to the Opera on the night of Christine’s disappearance—in which some people accuse Carlotta (mistakenly) of taking part.
Carlotta Quotes in The Phantom of the Opera
The The Phantom of the Opera quotes below are all either spoken by Carlotta or refer to Carlotta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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Some claimed that it was a mark of immeasurable pride; others spoke of her saint-like modesty. Yet, as a rule, artists are rarely so modest; in truth I am rather tempted to ascribe her actions to sheer dread. Yes, I believe that Christine Daaé was frightened by what had just happened to her, and was as taken aback by it as everybody else around her. […] To suggest that Christine was taken aback or even frightened by her triumph is in fact an understatement: having reread the letter, I would say that she was terrified. Yes, yes, terrified. “I am no longer myself when I sing,” she wrote.
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Chapter 8
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Terror struck, followed by a general stampede. My intention here is not to revive the memory of that momentous event, for the curious reader can easily consult the accounts that appeared in the press at the time. Suffice it to say that many people were wounded and one died.
The chandelier had crashed upon the head of a poor woman who had come to the Opera that evening for the very first time in her life, and killed her instantly. She was the concierge whom Richard had chosen to replace Mme Giry, the Phantom’s preferred attendant. The next day one of the headlines read: ‘Two hundred thousand kilos hit concierge!’ That was her sole obituary!
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Carlotta Quotes in The Phantom of the Opera
The The Phantom of the Opera quotes below are all either spoken by Carlotta or refer to Carlotta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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Some claimed that it was a mark of immeasurable pride; others spoke of her saint-like modesty. Yet, as a rule, artists are rarely so modest; in truth I am rather tempted to ascribe her actions to sheer dread. Yes, I believe that Christine Daaé was frightened by what had just happened to her, and was as taken aback by it as everybody else around her. […] To suggest that Christine was taken aback or even frightened by her triumph is in fact an understatement: having reread the letter, I would say that she was terrified. Yes, yes, terrified. “I am no longer myself when I sing,” she wrote.
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Chapter 8
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Terror struck, followed by a general stampede. My intention here is not to revive the memory of that momentous event, for the curious reader can easily consult the accounts that appeared in the press at the time. Suffice it to say that many people were wounded and one died.
The chandelier had crashed upon the head of a poor woman who had come to the Opera that evening for the very first time in her life, and killed her instantly. She was the concierge whom Richard had chosen to replace Mme Giry, the Phantom’s preferred attendant. The next day one of the headlines read: ‘Two hundred thousand kilos hit concierge!’ That was her sole obituary!
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