The Phantom of the Opera2004

[Christine is in her bed; she wakes and gets up and leaves room; Raoul is asleep outside her room, guarding her; she slips past him and goes to coachman]

Coachman:
Where to, madamoiselle?

Christine:
The cemetery.

[Coachman is getting ready when the Phantom knocks him out and takes his place; Christine returns and does not realize the coachman is different]

Christine:
To my Father’s grave, please.

[During the trip to the grave Christine is huddled in the back; song plays in her mind]

Christine:
In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name...

[Raoul wakes and realizes Christine is gone; he leaps up and gets a horse and rides after her]

[Christine gets out coach and begins to walk through graveyard]

Christine:
[whispers] Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her father promised her that he would send her the Angel of Music. Her father promised her... Her father promised her... [sings] You were once my one companion, you were all that mattered, You were once a friend and father, then my world was shattered... Wishing you were somehow here again, wishing you were somehow near. Sometimes it seemed, if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here, wishing I could hear your voice again, knowing that I never would. Dreaming of you won't help me to do all that you dreamed I could. Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental seem for you the wrong companions. You were warm and gentle. Too many years fighting back tears. Why can’t the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye. Help me say goodbye.

The Phantom:
[voice appears from her fathers grave] Wandering child, so lost, so helpless, yearning for my guidance.

Christine:
Angel or father? Friend of phantom? Who is it there staring?

The Phantom:
Have you forgotten your Angel?

Christine:
Angel, oh speak, what endless longings, echo in this whisper?

The Phantom:
Too long you've wandered in winter, far from my fathering gaze.

Christine:
Wildly my mind beats against you...

The Phantom:
You resist...

The Phantom and Christine:
Yet/but your/the soul obeys... Angel of Music, you/I denied me/you. Turning from true beauty! Angel of Music, do not shun me/my protector come to your/me, strange Angel!

The Phantom:
I am your Angel of Music...

[Christine trancelike starts to approach her father’s tomb]

The Phantom:
Come to me, Angel of Music...

[Raoul rides up on horse]

Raoul:
No! Christine, wait!

[Runs up to her; Christine pauses and turns to him]

Christine:
Raoul!

Raoul:
Whatever you believe, this man - this thing - is not your father!

[The Phantom suddenly appears and attacks Raoul; Christine gasps and watches helplessly as the two battle; Raoul and the Phantom fight around the graveyard; the Phantom injures Raoul on the arm but Raoul manages to defeat him; he stands over him, ready to finish him off]

Christine:
No Raoul! No, not like this...

[Raoul steps away from the Phantom; he helps Christine onto horse and they both ride away; the Phantom gets up and watches them leave]

The Phantom:
Now, let it be war upon you both!