Charlotte Erlih

L’étoile et le Fantôme de l’Opéra

October 14, 2026
Novel
288 pages
19,50 €
9782359852592
978-2-3598-5259-2
																Charlotte Erlih, L’étoile et le Fantôme de l’Opéra
																Charlotte Erlih, L’étoile et le Fantôme de l’Opéra

A cursed ballet. A troubling passion. Deadly demands.

Anastasia leaves her Romanian countryside behind with a dream bigger than herself: to dance at the Opéra Garnier. Though she has only a small role in the Company, she is ready to do whatever it takes to prove herself.

Amid friendship, rivalry, and pressure, she throws herself body and soul into rehearsals for Orpheus, a ballet shrouded in a dark legend…

Some say it was composed by the Phantom of the Opera himself.

But as opening night approaches, excitement slowly gives way to unease. Strange accidents multiply, and an elusive presence seems to follow the troupe all the way backstage.

At the heart of this chaos, a pianist as fascinating as he is enigmatic shakes Anastasia’s every certainty. As their destinies intertwine, the ghosts of the past seem to be dangerously awakening the secrets lurking beneath the gilded splendor of the Opéra…

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The author

Charlotte Erlih was born in 1978. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and holder of the agrégation in Modern Literature, she taught Performing Arts at university before dedicating herself to writing and directing in 2008. From her first short films, adapted from texts by Maylis de Kerangal, she has interwoven literature, live performance, and cinema in her work, enjoying blurring the boundaries between genres.

She has published around twenty works, mainly in young adult and children’s literature (novels, comics, picture books), including Bacha Posh, 20 Feet Underground, and The Last Wrong Note, which have won numerous awards in France and abroad.

Her debut, Funambules, was published by Grasset. In 2023, she wrote and co-directed (with M.-P. Camus) her first documentary, A French Woman in Kabul, which won the Audience Award at the Pessac International Historical Film Festival and the Terre(s) d’Histoire – INA Award at FIGRA.

October 14, 2026
Novel
288 pages
19,50 €
9782359852592
978-2-3598-5259-2
M6 Éditions