It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris.
Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. The Phantom is a body without a head; he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose and he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers...