Christine Daaé is a character by a man.
Christine Daaé is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Gaston Leroux 's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and of the various adaptations of the work . Gaston Leroux . 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 , notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney , and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1986 musical .