Lecture en français langue étrangère (FLE) au format numérique dans la collection Lecture CLE en français facile destinée aux grands adolescents et adultes niveau B2.Le fantôme de l'opéraUne ombre rôde dans l'Opéra. Un machiniste est retrouvé pendu, un grand lustre se détache en pleine représentation, on parle du fantôme de la loge n°5...Ce fantôme effrayant n'est pas une légende : des gens affirment l'avoir vu hanter les coulisses de l'Opéra. Il porte un costume noir et a une tête de mort à la place du visage. Mais le spectacle doit continuer...
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
Bien, novela clásica adaptada al nivel B2, aunque pensaba que sería un poco menos simple. Me ha valido para conocer un poco más la historia del Fantasma de la Ópera (que la conocía más bien poco) y darme ganas de ver el musical. Sobre todo, esto último. Siempre está bien escuchar el audio al mismo tiempo para hacer un poco más el oído.