Film version of the opera uses a combination of dramatization and stage performances to tell the story of a poet who dreams up three women who each break his heart. This lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera includes performances from some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen.

The famous opera singer Violetta von Cacklefur is in Gloomeria to perform at the Royal Mosetropolitan Theater! But the mischievous phantom of the theater has an old grudge against her. It's up to Creepella and Geronimo to track him down in the theater's spooky basement...before the curtains rise and he ruins the show! -- Back cover.

"Covering famous operas from 14 Italian, French and German composers, this handbook is designed to help listeners understand and appreciate the special skills required to sing famous operatic songs. It includes a plot synopsis of each opera with information about each song. Foreign language passages are translated into English. Appendices provide information on singers, recordings and useful references"--

Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate them.

Taken from the December 30, 2006 live performance.

The Bey of Algiers tires of his wife, and a tangled plot unfolds as he pursues a new love interest