It's 1880, at the Paris Opera House. Everyone's talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the specter that lives somewhere beneath the Opera House. The Phantom is a man dressed in black. He's a headless body, a headless body. He has a yellow face, no nose, and black holes for eyes. Everyone is afraid of the Phantom—the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stagehands. But who has actually seen him?