The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film) and featured the "Air des clochettes" from the opera "Lakmé" by Léo Delibes and the overture from Charles Gounod's "Faust". The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film) The Phantom of the Opera () is a 1998 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from the novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux. However, there are many differences between the book and the film (the biggest being that the Phantom is not disfigured). In Paris 1877 a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground
Phantom of the Opera (1976 musical) Australia and New Zealand, on national tours. Phantom of the Opera (1976 musical) Phantom of the Opera is a 1976 musical with book and lyrics by Ken Hill. It is the first musical adaptation of the novel "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux, about the hideously disfigured Phantom's amorous obsession with the magnificent, naïve singer, Christine. Hill wrote the original English lyrics to the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito. Hill’s "Phantom of the Opera" was the first musical version of the story by Gaston Leroux and has enjoyed financial success. Hill's musical inspired