Christine is a talented young singer who was sent by the Count De Chagny to sing at the Paris Opera House to be trained by the manager - Gerard Carriere. But Carrier left and the new manager - Richard Cholet and his wife - Carlotta, a fat soprano put her working in the costume department after a man in the costume department was killed by the infamous Phantom. The Phantom turns out to be Erik - a lonely disfigured masked man who's the son of Gerard Carrier, left alone in the opera cellars and dreams of Christine since childhood. Erik start to teach Christine in an abandoned music room while tricks the managers. But when the Count De Chagny returns, Christine and the Count fall in love and Erik is angry... VERY ANGRY!

Based on a musical by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston. The idea for this U.S. version came about around the same time Ken Hill's version was playing in England. When Andrew Lloyd Webber produced his own version a couple of years later, the Kopit/Yeston idea was shelved. When Andrew Lloyd Webber's version came to the U.S., they realized that the two shows had different basic elements and direction. The show was revived as a television movie, using real operatic sequences instead of Yeltson's score, and later brought to life as the complete stage play with Yeltson's score, as originally intended. Thus three different versions were made (2 U.K. and 1 U.S) with Webber's being far more successful.

Erik The Phantom of the Opera:
[about Christine] For as long as I can remember... ever since I was a child, I have dreamed of her. People are born for many things, Gerard. I was born to live, if one can call this living, down here. But I've never known quite why. I was born so she could save me. That's what she's done! She's the reason I was born... I love her, Gerard.

Revealing mistakes: Christine Daae's last name is mispelled on one of the posters for the production of "Faust" inside the opera house.

Written by Charles Gounod
Performed by the National Hungarian Orchestra