Intrigued, Harry takes Christine back to the opera house, where in her dressing room, the same voice tells Harry to leave her there and go. On the ride back home, Christine tells Harry about the voice she heard. That night, Lord Ambrose attempts to seduce her, but as they are about to leave for his apartment, Harry saves her. ![]() ![]() In her dressing room, Christine is warned against Lord Ambrose by a Phantom voice. ![]() Lord Ambrose lecherously approves of the selection and invites Christine to dinner. He finds a promising young star in Christine Charles ( Heather Sears), one of the chorus girls. With the show postponed and Maria refusing to perform again, Harry frantically auditions new singers. When the body of a murdered stagehand swings out of the wings during Maria's first aria, pandemonium ensues. No one will sit in a certain box, Box #5, because it is haunted.īackstage, despite the soothing efforts of the opera's producer, Harry Hunter ( Edward de Souza), everyone, including the show's star, Maria, is nervous and upset as if a sinister force was at work. The first night of the season at the London Opera House finds the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy ( Michael Gough), a wealthy and pompous man who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer ( Thorley Walters) informs him the theatre has not been completely sold out. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.
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