She shares a sweet comfortable bond with Raoul, and a passionate creative loyalty to the Phantom, tainted by his psychological manipulation of her. THEATRE GOSSIP #469: The Out of the Woods? Edition In 1988, the popular comic book figure The Phantom was recruited for use in electoral education material. Based on Operetta and Rotter, who are the only phantoms with visual presence in Monster High, … Lifestyle | Daily Life | News | The Sydney Morning Herald Phantom and Christine Christine Daaé | Phantom of the Opera | Fandom How old is the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera? Difference between Phantom Another difference is the date in which the main story takes place. I don’t know about all the versions of, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, but in Susan Kay’s, ‘Phantom’, the age difference is 30, since Erik was born in 1831, and Christine in 1861. Christine’s relationship towards the Phantom was partly affected by her own emotional memories of the Phantom as an “angel of music” and her father. In the end of the movie, we see a simple black rose on her grave stone- he never stopped loving her!