Madame Giry’s daughter and Christine’s best friend. By her directions, Raoul found the way to OG’s hideout. Before Christine, only she had access to OG’s lair. It seems like she was the only person who may have seen OG prior to wearing the mask and the tuxedo. This sealed the mystery shrouded in the character of OG.

The only character in the musical that may have an idea behind OG’s real identity, Madame Giry was only to scared to tell more. An easy pushover, he ended up becoming Raoul’s pawn to entrap OG later in the story. Piangi in return ends up becoming Carlotta’s lackey to the point of parroting everything that Carlotta said. Not that Carlotta is off-tune but she’s a diva that needed someone to bully and that someone turned out to be Piangi. This is where it was slightly suggested that OG’s powers were beyond the supernatural.Ī tenor with pronunciation issues, Piangi comes across more as a tool for Carlotta to play around and make her look better on stage. Her voice was reduced to a frog’s croak in one production where she snatched the lead role from Christine. She is self-centered, vain and like hogging the spotlight to herself – this, despite blunt feedback by OG as mentioned in one of the letters that Madame Giry would deliver to the opera owners. It is obviously a move by OG to finally put his ward into leading lady status and finally headline operas. The original prima donna of the opera house in the story, it was her walk-out from the stage that prompted Christine to be the new prima donna.

He promised a better life for Christine as mentioned in the song “All I Ask of You”. He realized that it is not enough to be the opera’s new patron and was steadfast in his love for Christine. Hadley Fraser in the 25th Anniversary revival of “The Phantom of the Opera”Ĭhristine’s childhood friend and eventual lover, he tried to win her love despite the seemingly indomitable rivalry looming at the background.

The phantom of the opera characters