A Fright at the Opera

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Summary:

Count Duckula, Igor and Nanny decide to visit the opera house in Paris. However, The Phantom of the Opera wants to take revenge on the opera house and all those who visit it to show them, once and for all, that he is the greatest composer that ever lived. The Phantom, with the aid of his assistant Krool, is plotting to make sure that his music "is the last thing they ever hear."

Igor manages to bump into his old friend and colleague Krool when they arrive at the opera. Krool informs Igor that he is working for the Phantom and warns him to leave immediately because his master "is planning something so wicked, so fiendishly evil" that it makes even his blood turn cold. Krool's master, the Phantom, is planning to kidnap "the prima donna, the great Elvira" so he can take her into his lair in the sewers and force her to sing one of his compositions. by The Phantom and Duckula must save her. But where is Igor?

Trivia:

• A homage to The Phantom of the Opera
• Count Duckula, Igor and Nanny have an entire box to themselves in the opera house. In a traditional opera house, the auditorium is U-shaped. Around the auditorium are tiers of balconies, and often, nearer to the stage, are boxes (small partitioned sections of a balcony).
• Duckula describes himself at one point as "an opera buff".
• When Nanny mistakenly thinks that the opera is over, when in fact it had not even begun, she says that it was "hardly worth getting all dressed up for." However, she is dressed in the same clothes as usual. Only Duckula is dressed a little differently since he had brought his top hat with him.
• The extras accompanying the prima donna Elvira on the stage are dressed like Egyptians. They look very similar to the characters Hoomite and Yoobee in the first episode, 'No Sax Please - We're Egyptian'.

Quotes:

Narrator: "Here, at the magnificent opera house in Paris, glittering halls await the throng of glittering music lovers but far below, in the very sewers which flow beneath this beauteous building a more sinister song can be heard."

Nanny (after Duckula says he is going to escort them to their box): "A box? Oooooh, you'd think a place as grand as this would have proper chairs, wouldn't you?"

Krool: " Igor! My old fiend! I mean, friend!"

Igor: "Evil? Did you say evil? Oh, how it does my heart good to hear that word."

Igor: "If only my master was half as malevolent as his father, or his father's father!"