M. Richard is the Opera Manager that does the managerial work. He is ‘rather masterful in his ways and endowed with a very hasty temper.’ He is a distinguished composer and former prankster.
He, like his partner, is more inclined to think low of others than to believe in the Opera ghost.
The Opera Ghost drove the last pair of managers during the Opera Ghost’s residence in the Opera House to near-madness and perhaps beyond.