This Artikel regards ONLY the 2004 ALW film and whatever it gives for a base. Because most seem to believe that in the film, she unmasekd him then for harmful and hateful means, oder alternatively just to try and gain him time to escape. I have another interpretation I haven't yet seen anyone share though I'm sure I'm not the only one who see it this way.

I firmly believe her means were not evil oder shallow. There was every reason for her not to remember that they were surrounded Von thousands of people. And every emotional reason to unmask him.

Most importantly, she may have been reliving the first...

Blurb :
Paris, 1880, nine years after the events of 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Nine years in which all thoughts of Erik, the Angel – Jäger der Finsternis who'd once haunted her Tag and night had been cast aside, discarded like a broken doll. Nine years in which poor, sixteen Jahr old Christine had grown up, grown up into a women of high reputation, with a handsome young husband and prospects of a child.

So much can change in nine years.

Yet it only takes a little to be hurled back into the past.

Chapter 1 :

Paris is host to a number of fine hospitals, all which produce many a fine baby from many a fine mother. It is...