According to Wikipedia:
"The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux."
This means that since this story is fiction, there are no particular dates given for the birth and death of the phantom, Erik.
He died when she was young.
why do a lot of people die? old age. The phantom certainly didn't kill her.
According to Gaston Leroux's 'The Phantom of the Opera' and Susan Kay's 'Phantom', he died in 1882 from what might have been the effects of a broken heart. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, his time of death is unknown, although we know it would have been sometime during or after 1919.
Susan Kay wrote a book called Phantom in which she wrote a biography of his life. She has him born in Boscherville, France in 1831. His mother's name was Madeleine and his father's name was Charles, but he had died earlier that year. She does not give an actual date of Erik (the Phantom's) birth, but it is sometime after May. This is all, of course, according to Susan Kay's 1991 novel which is profit fanfiction and not the original author's vision, but I happen to love that novel and I believe she describes his life wonderfully!
In "The Phantom of the Opera," Erik, who becomes the Phantom, had a troubled childhood marked by rejection. His mother, a caring woman, died when he was young, and his father, a cruel and abusive man, was ashamed of Erik's physical deformities. This abandonment and mistreatment contributed to Erik's feelings of isolation and shaped his later life as the tortured figure living beneath the Paris Opera House.
Yes in Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, he dies of a broken heart. Christine's kiss was too much for him, he never been kiss before. He decided to set her free, Raoul free, told her she can marry Raoul or anyone if she likes. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Phantom of the Opera-No, the Phantom disappears. Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom of the Opera, he is killed by the mob. Claude Rain's 1943 Phantom of the Opera, the cave's rocks falls on him. Other movies of the Phantom of the Opera will have their own ending to the Phantom.
The Phantom does not die. In all versions Meg Giry finds his mask on his throne; in some that is the final scene, in others she also finds his cape; in Webber's movie adaptation it is shown that many years later, when Raoul is old and Christine has died that he still lives. The Phantom does not die in Webber's musical, but he does die in the original book by Gaston Leroux. In the book Erik dies of a broken heart.
Christine had asked Raoul before she had died that Monkey Music Box was important to her and that Raoul does not know it belonged to the Phantom, it was his childhood toy.
No animals die in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and movie. A cat dies in the original novel by Gaston Leroux.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. It will be titled Phantom: Love Never Dies. It will be based off the book The Phantom of Manhattan and take place 10 years after the original story ends. It will open in the fall of 2010. Ramin Karimloo from the London production and Sierra Boggess from the Las Vegas production are set to star in it in London and on Broadway.There are rumours that Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to be making a sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". Supposedly, it will be titled "The Phantom of Manhattan", and is based on a book that was made as a sequel to Gaston Leroux's book "The Phantom of the Opera", but by a different author.
No one. The 2004 film clearly shows the Phantom had lived even after Christine died at the age of 65. The Phantom probably died later of old age because he was older than Christine. In the original novel he died soon after Christine left with Raoul, and he (the Phantom) died of love, because he loved Christine so much but had to let her go.
The Phantom of the Opera opened in the West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It is the longest running musical in Broadway history, after overtaking Cats in 2006, and the second-longest-running West End musical.