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. Backstage, 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. No one will sit in a certain box because it is haunted.
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 theatre has not been completely sold out. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.
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