Showing results for "Opera" in Genre Fiction

The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured opera ghost haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions.

The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an "opera ghost", legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms. Some allege to have seen the ghost in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine during her triumphant performance.

A lawless frontier. A corrupt Senate. Two Rangers stand between peace and a corporate takeover. In the far reaches of the Steele Empire, corporations are buying influence, hiring private armies, and rewriting the law to suit their interests. When Frontier Ranger Wes Antrim investigates what should have been a routine land dispute on a remote cattle world, he uncovers evidence of something far bigger: a coordinated corporate power grab backed by mercenaries and political protection.

The insectoid alien race known as the Vitri have invaded the Imperial world of Naugh in retribution for the deal broken by Grand Admiral Aatroxiss. Doing the right thing has consequences, and by saving the Turook he has doomed another world to slaughter if the Empire can't take it back in time. Aatroxiss and his flagship, the Redemption, arrive to meet up with the Imperial forces already engaged in battle, but what the Emperor's sole Grand Admiral finds there is far more than expected.

"Non fiori ma opere di bene", a metà tra videogioco e romanzo cavalleresco, racconta le vicende di Elisa, la protagonista. Convinta di acquisire maggiore stabilità, si converte al cattolicesimo in età adulta. Un incontro che attendeva da tempo mette però in discussione le sicurezze che credeva di avere. Con tono comico e tragico, e una lingua che riflette e pensa, in questo romanzo Elisa Fuksas raggiunge una narrazione coinvolgente e ricca di significato.

Rich Corrington has everything an Earthside man could want. He's married, a Party member, and starting his dream job. He also just received a private house as part of his work, a place to raise his family far away from the sprawling slums of Earth. But tragedy strikes, and he faces an impossible choice: his faith or his son. Left a hollow man with only the thinnest vestiges of his faith in God and State, he takes the space elevator up to the colonies.

A phantom has haunted the Paris Opera House for years. Now he is infatuated with singer Christine Daaé. Despite an astonishing debut performance, Christine fails to win the lead in Faust, and the Phantom’s cursed retaliation on the opera house is spectacularly fatal. As the chandelier falls, he kidnaps Christine, and through hidden passages and behind trapdoors, shares his life story with her. To secure her escape, Christine promises to stay true to him forever. But when the Phantom learns of the prima donna’s intention to flee, his passion turns terrifying.

In the hidden passages beneath the Paris Opera House lives a mysterious man who conceals his disfigured face. From the shadows, he watches the dressing rooms and follows Christine, a young singer with extraordinary talent for whom he feels an obsessive love. Through Erik—tormented by his deformity and passion for beauty—and through the labyrinth of the Opera House itself, Leroux takes us to the world behind the curtain. A story where the fantastic is told with journalistic precision, enriched with many real elements that inspired the author.

Jack Ross is lonely. It feels like he has lost everything that gave his life meaning. His wife Sherry died 19 months ago. He retired from practicing law nine months ago. Sports injuries forced him to give up playing basketball and tennis. He is lost without the love of his life, meaningful work, and the outlet of playing sports to distract him from the pain of his loss. When his former law partner invites him to try out a new game with the silly name of pickleball, Jack is skeptical, but he agrees to give it a try.

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.

L’opera al nero è la storia di un personaggio immaginario, Zenone, medico, alchimista, filosofo, dalla nascita illegittima a Bruges nei primi anni...

Their home is lost to them and their way of life is on the line, the Caldwells are scattered to the endless ocean for a way to fix the world they treasured. The daughter, the father, and the grandfather have no choice but to fight for everything they once held dear. Kindle, the Captain of Driftwood, is forced to diligently fix the mess she made and finds the truth behind the Flame. Appetite, lost in his anger, trudges the darkness of his own hunger as a predator yearning for only his den. And Drifter, ever older, holds their family together, but for how long?

Meg Giry grew up with tales of the Opera Ghost, a spectral being said to haunt the Paris Opera House. But when he rescues her from rape in the streets of Paris, Meg learns that the stories are true, that the ghost, also known as the Phantom of the Opera, is a real man, with his sights set on her best friend, Christine Daae. Despite being warned to stay away, Meg is drawn deeper into a world that has remained secret for years....

The complete list of narrators includes: Louise Anne Bateman, Ryan Kirwan, Lynne Fallowell, Victoria Bowes, Joshua Plank, David Plank, Kathy Stokes, Bernard Tagliavini, Jonathan Hope, David Burton, Gabi King, and Shaun Blake.

Iris accepteert een vreemd zomerbaantje als hulp in de huishouding, maar ontdekt al snel dat er iets mis is met het verhaal van haar werkgever over zijn zoon en hun mysterieuze huis.

The actors, singers, and patrons of the Paris Opera House say that a ghost haunts the labyrinthine chambers beneath its stage. While there are those who laugh off such superstitions, they always do so nervously, in the bright light of day. Nearly everyone connected with the Opera House in any way has felt the phantom's vague, troubling presence. But beautiful, talented young singer Christine Daae will soon experience a terror far more acute than any vague feeling of unease.

Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. From one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams—all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China. In post–Cultural Revolution...

Die letzte Reise der Patriamer beginnt – und ihr Schicksal liegt in seinen Händen. Peregrin erwacht ohne Erinnerungen an Bord der Arche Nova, dem letzten Raumschiff seines Volkes. Ziel der Mission: Nova Domus – die Erde. Doch die Reise durch das endlose All ist gefährlicher, als irgendjemand ahnt. Neben ihm erwacht ein weiterer Patriamer – ebenfalls ohne Gedächtnis. Eine geheimnisvolle Frau, die sich als Hüterin des Schiffes vorstellt, und ein Hologramm bieten ihre Hilfe an. Doch nicht alle an Bord verfolgen dasselbe Ziel.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this gorgeous and haunting fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her desires when she's pursued by a secretive patron who may be more than he seems. 'A fever dream of a novel, surreal and intricate, and...

Lungo un canale di Pietroburgo, nella luce crepuscolare di un sole che non tramonta e trasforma il cielo in una serie infinita di "notti bianche", un giovane uomo vaga in compagnia della propria solitudine fino all'incontro con una donna che condivide la sua natura notturna. Sospesi tra realtà e sogno a occhi aperti, i due promettono di rivedersi, dando vita per quattro notti a un dialogo serrato, appassionato e velatamente ambiguo sulle loro esistenze.

Eric possessed many truly brilliant and extraordinary abilities including musical genuis. Being outcast from society for his ugliness, Eric was forced to wander from one country to another. When in France, he worked at fairs demonstrating tricks and ventriloquism. Later he became a bricklayer and was engaged in building the Paris Opera House. Upon completion of the construction, Eric decided to hide from the world in the cellars of the Opera and turned this great building into his own empire.