With the aid of the dance instructor Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson), he's been giving secret lessons to Christine Daa (Emmy Rossum), the orphaned vestal ingenue in the chorus of the Opera Populaire. There is, however, in this shameless atrocity, a phantom (Gerard Butler), and he does haunt a big 19th-century Paris opera house with his face half-obscured by a white mask. And people looking for opera - well, shame on you. People looking for a resounding musical will find it odd that the camera runs away from the lip-synching cast. People looking for romance will find only cardboard lovers. Today, ''The Phantom of the Opera" lurches from Broadway to the megaplex, and it has a little something to irritate everybody.
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