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.

1962 phantom of the opera mask