"When a woman saw me, like you, she was mine. She loves me for always!"
...Erik sounds like a serial killer. O.o
(Did I translate that correctly?)
Pretty much -- my own prior comment on that passage was that he comes across as "more Ted Bundy than Don Juan" :-(
"When a woman has seen me, as you have, she is mine. She will love me forever!"
(And remember that in the preceding passage, when they are singing the duet from "Othello", she believes that Erik is so caught up in his part that he is going to kill her for real in her role as Desdemona, and she is so hypnotised that she actually welcomes that fate; that is why she unmasks him in Leroux, because she wants to see his face before she dies...)
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Date: 2018-08-01 10:23 pm (UTC)Pretty much -- my own prior comment on that passage was that he comes across as "more Ted Bundy than Don Juan" :-(
"When a woman has seen me, as you have, she is mine. She will love me forever!"
(And remember that in the preceding passage, when they are singing the duet from "Othello", she believes that Erik is so caught up in his part that he is going to kill her for real in her role as Desdemona, and she is so hypnotised that she actually welcomes that fate; that is why she unmasks him in Leroux, because she wants to see his face before she dies...)