The Paris Opera is haunted-everyone knows it. Everyone, that is, except for the new managers, who spark a violent dispute with the Opera Ghost when they refuse to acknowledge his existence or submit to his demands. Sometimes surfacing as a disembodied voice in Box Five or appearing as a gentleman in evening dress with a death's head, the phantom is obsessed with Christine Daae, a lovely and enigmatic novice singer emdowed with an amazing voice. But impetuous Viscount Raoul de Chagny is in love with Christine, and he and his brother, Count Philippe, are swept away into the phantom's deadly illusion with horrifying consequences.