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"Angel of Music (The Mirror)" is a song from the stage musical "The Phantom of the Opera" composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is sung as a duet between Christine and The Phantom and is sung right after the song "Little Lotte" and right before the song "The Phantom of the Opera." During the song, Christine is getting ready for bed when she hears the Phantom singing to her. At the start of the song, the Phantom harshly criticizes Christine's childhood sweetheart, Raoul, saying that he is riding on her success. Assuming that he is the Angel of Music, the man who has been coaching her, she sings back about how she wishes to see his face. An image of the Phantom appears singing to and hypnotising her. Christine slowly walks towards him, singing. She actually walks through the mirror of her room into the Phantom's tunnel. The song ends with the Phantom singing "I am your angel of music, come to the Angel of Music!" Raoul, expresses shock at hearing the Phantom's voice from outside Christine's dressing room, saying "Whose is that voice? Who is that in there?" Prior to this, however, Christine confides to her ballerina friend Meg Giry that an Angel of Music visits her, and they sing a duet of "Angel of Music" as well. "Little Lotte" is sung immediately after this. Later, at the end of the graveyard scene and after the song "Wishing You were Somehow Here Again," the Phantom attempts to lure Christine to him by reprising "Angel of Music," but is interrupted by Raoul, who sings "Angel of darkness, cease this torment!" and departs with a torn Christine.
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