"It will be remembered that, later, when digging..." That sentence in the preface to Gaston Leroux's most famous novel was recently proved to be accurate. About what?

zbeckabee

"It will be remembered that, later, when digging in the substructure of the Opera, before burying the phonographic records of the artist's voice, the workmen laid bare a corpse. Well, I was at once able to prove that this corpse was that of the Opera ghost." http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/detective/phant12.html What corpse? It is, rather, what records? Music lovers around the world were stunned this past December when the Opéra National de Paris and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France announced a major discovery: a time capsule, dredged up from a subbasement of the Palais Garnier, which is also known as the Opéra. Carefully packed away inside two large metal urns was not just one phantom of the opera but many—24 gramophone discs featuring such long-dead artists as Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Emma Calvé and Enrico Caruso. In 1907, the discs had been entombed, like Aida's lovers, beneath a great architectural monument. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/preseence-200803.html Sep 09 08, 10:04 PM

edmund80

Yes ! Leroux's account of this valuable time capsule turned out to be quite accurate. A lot of people are awaiting the release of the CD that has been promised to be made out of these valuable discs. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/17/2120441.htm Sep 09 08, 11:04 PM