(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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I'd forgotten that part. D: