"I am going to teach you to sing, Christine. I am going to give you a new voice!"A fated new opera opens, but has a run of bad luck, ending in the death of a stage hand during a performance. Then a promising young singer Christine Charles (Heather Sears) disappears. The producer (Edward de Souza) goes in seach and discovers a mystery surrounding the authorship of the opera. Could it be that it was not written by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough), who claims it as his, but the missing presumed dead Prof Petrie (Herbert Lom)? And could Petrie be behind all the bad luck plaguing the performance?
Hammer takes another tried and tested classic and give it their own take, changing the location and much of the story. This version plays up the phantom character as a man pushed to the limit by an unscrupulous man, and a man who we see in a sympathetic way, playing down the horror for pathos.
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