With the show postponed, Harry frantically auditions new singers. In a panic, the curtain is rung down, and Maria refuses to sing again. The climax comes during Maria's first aria, when a side of the scenery rips apart to reveal the body of a hanged stage hand. No one will sit in a certain box 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 theater has not been completely sold out. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.
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