在巴黎的一家歌剧院里，怪事频繁地发生，原来的首席女主角险些被砸死，剧院出现一个令人毛骨悚然的虚幻男声。这个声音来自住在剧院地下迷宫的“幽灵”，他爱上了女演员克丽斯汀，暗中教她唱歌，帮她获得女主角的位置，而克丽斯汀却爱着剧院经纪人拉乌尔，由此引起了嫉妒、追逐、谋杀等一系列情节。而最终“幽灵”发现自己对克丽斯汀的爱已经超过了个人的占有欲，于是解脱了克丽斯汀，留下披风和面具，独自消失在昏暗的地下迷宫里。该剧的音乐写的极为成功，神秘而优美。刚开始的一首：“Think of me”就会紧紧抓住你的心，而随后“The Phantom of Opera”以及“The Music of the Night”,已经成了音乐剧的经典名曲。

《歌剧魅影(英文版)/最经典英语文库》由卡斯顿·勒鲁著。

There have been many literary and other dramatic worksbased on Leroux's novel, ranging from stage musicals tofilms to children's books. Some well known stage and screenadaptations of the novel are the 1925 film and the AndrewLloyd Webber musical。

《歌剧魅影(英文版)/最经典英语文库》由卡斯顿·勒鲁著。

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1 Is it the Ghost?

CHAPTER 2 The New Margarita

CHAPTER 3 The Mysterious Reason

CHAPTER 4 Box Five

CHAPTER 5 The Enchanted Violin

CHAPTER 6 A Visit to Box Five

CHAPTER 7 Faust and What Followed

CHAPTER 8 The Mysterious Brougham

CHAPTER 9 At the Masked Ball

CHAPTER 10 Forget the Name of the Man's Voice

CHAPTER 11 Above the Trap-Doors

CHAPTER 12 Apollo's Lyre

CHAPTER 13 A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover

CHAPTER 14 The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin

CHAPTER 15 Christine! Christine!

CHAPTER 16 Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost

CHAPTER 17 The Safety-Pin Again

CHAPTER 18 The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian

CHAPTER 19 The Viscount and the Persian

CHAPTER 20 In the Cellars of the Opera

CHAPTER 21 Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera

CHAPTER 22 In the Torture Chamber

CHAPTER 23 The Tortures Begin

CHAPTER 24 "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"

CHAPTER 25 The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?

CHAPTER 26 The End of the Ghost's Love Story

EPILOGUE