Characters in "The Canary Trainer"
Note: Bolded characters are based upon characters from The Phantom of the Opera. Italicized characters are based on existing Sherlock Holmes stories.
- Sherlock Holmes – the detective, protagonist
- Dr. Watson – initial narrator
- La Sorelli – the prima donna soprano
- Irene Adler – also a singer (previously appeared in A Scandal in Bohemia)
- Christine Daaé – the young coloratura
- Maître Gaston Leroux – the conductor
- Erik – The ghost
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