

Hartnall offers Baron Hunyadi to take over the show. The spoiled diva accuses everyone in the show being the reason for her problems and walks away. The selfish leading soprano Madame Brigida Bianchi refuses to follow the direction from the show's English director Michael Hartnell. From then on Sándor Korvin becomes the "Opera Ghost" AKA The Phantom of the Opera.įour years later, Faust is being performed again. Lajos steals a mask from the costume department to hide Korvin's deformity caused by the acid. He is saved from the fire by the rat catcher Lajos who hides him in the cellars beneath the Opera house. Korvin murders the critic but a bottle of sulphuric acid falls over on a shelf and splashes on to Korvin's face badly burning him. During a struggle the office catches fire. A vengeful Korvin murders the man who drove the audience against his wife, then he goes to confront the critic. Completely heartbroken Elena jumps into the river, drowning herself. He also bribes the critic to write a bad review about her. In revenge for Elena refusal the baron bribes a man to make the audience boo and despise Elena during her debut. But Korvin insists that she is and proves so by convincing her to be calm and confident. Elena loses hope of succeeding in the role believing she is not good enough. She leaves with a fearful threat from Hunyadi that her career will end. The Opera House's owner Baron Hunyadi attempts to win Elena's heart to draw her away from her husband but Elena refuses. In Budapest a young operatic soprano Elena Korvin is struggling to rehearse the part of Marguerite in the Opera Gounod's Faust despite the assistance from her loving husband Sándor Korvin, the orchestra's conductor. A film adaption of novel by Gaston Leroux.
