# The Phantom of the Opera — Character guide

> Key figures in The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

- [Raoul de Chagny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/raoul_de_chagny.md): Raoul moves through the Opera's polite society as a man of name and means, but his real business is Christine: tracking her through managers, landladies, and locked dressing-room doors. What he hears at Perros and behind
- [Christine Daaé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/christine_daae.md): Christine rises from the corps de ballet's shadow to the Opera's brightest soprano, adored by audiences and resented by rivals like Carlotta. Raised on her dead father's legends and the promise of an Angel of Music, she 
- [Erik](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/erik.md): Known only as the Opera ghost, he glides through the building like a shadow, speaks to no one, and leaves behind a trail of accidents, extorted allowances, and whispered sightings. Scene-shifter Joseph Buquet describes a
- [The Persian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/the_persian.md): Long absent from the Opera but possessed of an exact memory of its corridors and secret recesses, the daroga becomes the narrator's indispensable guide through the mystery. He speaks of Erik with a strange double tongue 
- [M. Firmin Richard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/firmin_richard.md): Richard inherits the management with Moncharmin and immediately dismisses the ghost as a joke, manhandling Mme. Giry and sneering at the memorandum-book his predecessors left behind. His blunt, physical fury — grabbing, 
- [Armand Moncharmin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/armand_moncharmin.md): Moncharmin shares the directorship with Richard but not his bluster; he is the one who admits, in his own tangled prose, to seeing a death's-head shape in Box Five while Richard saw an old woman. He and Richard clasp han
- [Mame Giry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/mame_giry.md): Mame Giry is a fixture of the Opera's backstage hierarchy, the woman who knows which box is haunted and which rules must never be broken. When the managers try to dismiss her warnings, she erupts with indignant fury, and
- [La Carlotta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/la_carlotta.md): Carlotta commands the Opera's stage and its gossip, and she has never forgiven Christine for the triumph that came when she filled in at a moment's notice. Vain, superstitious, and ruthless, she enlists influential frien
- [Comte de Chagny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/philippe_de_chagny.md): Count Philippe is the head of an old aristocratic house and the guardian of its honor, and he sees Raoul's infatuation with Christine Daaé as a threat to everything the Chagnys stand for. The brothers adore each other, y
- [Meg Giry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/meg_giry.md): Mame Giry's daughter and a ballet dancer at the Opera.
- [La Sorelli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/la_sorelli.md): Leading ballet dancer at the Opera, often involved in backstage drama.
- [Joseph Buquet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/joseph_buquet.md): Chief stagehand who spreads rumors about the Ghost and meets a mysterious end.
- [Mamma Valérius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/mamma_valerius.md): Christine's elderly guardian and foster mother after her father's death.
- [M. Gabriel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_gabriel.md): Opera house employee and assistant to the managers.
- [M. Mercier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_mercier.md): Opera house employee who assists with administrative matters.
- [M. Poligny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_poligny.md): Former co-manager of the Opera who warns the new managers about the Ghost.
- [M. Mifroid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_mifroid.md): Police commissary called to investigate the Opera's strange events.
- [Little Jammes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/little_jammes.md): Young ballet dancer at the Opera, friend of Meg Giry.
- [Daddy Daaé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/daddy_daae.md): Christine's deceased father, a famous violinist who told her stories of the Angel of Music.
- [M. Rémy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_remy.md): Opera secretary who handles correspondence for the managers.
- [M. Faure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/m_faure.md): Opera employee mentioned in passing during administrative scenes.
- [Darius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_phantom_of_the_opera_se/characters/darius.md): Servant or employee at the Opera mentioned in passing.

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