PHANTOM (very soft and enticing)
Wandering child, so lost, so helpless
yearning for my guidance
(Bewildered, CHRISTINE looks up, and murmurs breathlessly):
CHRISTINE
Angel or father, friend or Phantom?
Who is it there, staring?
PHANTOM (more and more hypnotic)
Have you forgotten your Angel?
CHRISTINE
Angel, oh, speak
What endless longings
echo in this whisper!
(RAOUL appears in the shadows and watches for a moment transfixed)
PHANTOM (now drawing CHRISTINE towards him)
Too long you've wandered in winter
RAOUL (to himself a murmur)
Once again she is his
PHANTOM
Far from my far-reaching gaze
RAOUL
Once again she returns
CHRISTINE (increasingly mesmerized)
Wildly my mind beats against you
PHANTOM
You resist
PHANTOM/CHRISTINE
Yet your/the soul obeys
RAOUL
...to the arms of her angel
angel or demon still he calls her
luring her back, from the grave
angel or dark seducer?
Who are you, strange angel?
PHANTOM
Angel of Music! You denied me,
turning from true beauty
Angel of Music! Do not shun me
Come to your strange Angel
CHRISTINE
Angel of Music! I denied you,
turning from true beauty
Angel of Music! My protector
Come to me, strange Angel
(CHRISTINE moves towards the figure of the PHANTOM)
PHANTOM (beckoning her)
I am your Angel of Music
Come to me: Angel of Music
RAOUL (suddenly calling out)
Angel of darkness!
Cease this torment!
(Inexorably the PHANTOM continues to beckon CHRISTINE)
PHANTOM
I am your Angel of Music
Come to me: Angel of Music
RAOUL (in desperation)
Christine! Christine listen to me!
Whatever you may believe, this man
this thing... is not your father!
(to the PHANTOM)
Let her go! For God's sake, let her go! Christine !
(Coming out of her trance CHRISTINE turns and mouths the words):
CHRISTINE
Raoul...
