While I nearly wore out the CD when I was 15, I came to dislike the hackneyed lyrics, bombastic score, and incoherent ensemble numbers. Even though Evita was the more successful of the two Andrew Lloyd Webber movie musicals, I find myself coming back to The Phantom of the Opera more often.
Philippe did not want Raoul to marry Christine, he was dead set against it as it would cause a huge scandal.There are actually quite a few things I like about this adaptation. Indeed, cosseted by two sisters and his old aunt, his almost exclusively female upbringing had made him open and honest and given him a boyish charm none of which had yet rubbed off.” seemed to have only just emerged from the influence of women. The aunt also asked Christine’s father to give Raoul violin lessons Raoul was visiting her house when he met Christine. Raoul’s aunt was the widow of a naval officer and “gave young Raoul a taste for the sea”. There is no mention of Raoul receiving any similar gift so he was dependent on Philippe’s support for anything beyond his naval salary. Philippe gave the Chagny sisters their shares back as a dowry when both sisters both got married on the same day. When their father died, the Chagny sisters and Raoul gave their shares of the inheritance (the law that the first born son inherited everything was abolished by Napoleon) for Philippe to manage. The Chagny family is very old, they go back to the time Louis X who was born in 1289. From then on, Philippe, his sisters, and Raoul’s old aunt looked after him and his education. Raoul’s father (Philibert) died when he was twelve. Raoul’s mother (whose maiden name was de Moerogis de La Martynière) died giving birth to him when Philippe was twenty. Raoul has a brother ( his full name is Philippe-Georges-Marie) and two unnamed older sisters. 
Just thought I’d put together a list of some details that are sometimes forgotten
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