


And then, one after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy. Sensible men who had wind of the story began by saying that Joseph Buquet had been the victim of a joke played by one of his assistants. His words were received with interest and amazement and soon there were other people to say that they too had met a man in dress-clothes with a death's head on his shoulders.

This chief scene-shifter was a serious, sober, steady man, very slow at imagining things. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears." As the tale goes, Rains plays the famously disfigured musician who haunts the Paris Opera House and kidnaps the beautiful young soprano whom he has trained. Academy Award-nominee Claude Rains gives a moving performance in this suspenseful, lyrical update to Gaston Leroux's macabre classic. His nose is so little worth talking about that you can't see it side-face and THE ABSENCE of that nose is a horrible thing TO LOOK AT. Purchase Phantom of the Opera (1943) on digital and stream instantly or download offline. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorizes the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protge whom he trains and loves. With Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Wendy Ferguson. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall: Directed by Nick Morris, Laurence Connor.
