Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera's 'phantom' - a mysterious masked figure who terrorises the Opera's management and players. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer, but when the Phantom demands her heart in return, Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange benefactor, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul.

The classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the novel opened in London in 1986 and is the highest grossing entertainment venture in history; the second-longest-running West End musical, and the longest-running musical on Broadway,. It still attracts legions of devoted 'phans' and recently inspired a sequel, 'Love Never Dies'.

Le Fantome de l'Opera was not a major success for Leroux when first published, but began to receive more attention after its first big screen adaptation, a silent film starring Lon Chaney, released in 1925