I’ve never seen the film The Phantom of the Opera as we didn’t have television when I was little and also I would never ever have been allowed to watch such a film, such a crazy film as mother called this sort, but somehow I must have picked up scenes somewhere and they stuck!
In my version the opera looks like the beautifully nostalgic old Opera de Nancy, and The Phantom is a gallant gentleman in disguise, a Beauty and the Beast kind of thing, one of my favourite fairy tale themes.
Anyhow it’s perfect for Christmas season, creating one’s very own Phantom of the Opera version. Silk velvet dresses and furs, the lights lowered and the staccato of heels on a tiled wet pavement.
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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