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Opera Singers

The Opera Singers also known as the Phantoms of the Opera are ghostly opera singers who are voiced and performed by Loulie Jean Norman (soprano) and Bill Reeve (tenor). They joined in the singing of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" with the female singer wailing and ad-libbing on the third verse while the male singer constantly vocalizes.

Trivia

  • In the comics, The female opera singer is named Baroness Elda.
  • In the cast-member made Ghost Gallery storyline, they are given the names of Carmen and Antonio Jones and they were New York Opera-Singer who was the siblings of Giovanni Jones (The Beheaded Knight) and Rocco Jones (The Executioner). The four of them were all hired by George Gracey Jr. (The Ghost Host) to perform at his home of Gracey Manor in order to cheer up his melancholy wife Lillian and improve their social-standing. During the performance of an original production written by their father called "Don Juan in the Underworld" (with Carmen and Antonio in the roles of Brunhilda and Sigfried), the performers accidentally disturbed George's psychotic second-cousin Gus Gracey (the Prisoner) who slept in the crypt they were performing at. Gus murdered all four of the performers by pulling a trap-door beneath Rocco (playing an executioner) while he had his axe raised over Giovanni's head, resulting in Giovanni getting decapitated as Rocco fell into the pit where he was beaten to death by Gus. The other two siblings were killed when Gus tampered with a prop funeral-pyre and burned them alive with it's fuel-tank.
  • Their proximity to the BeheadedKnight is intended to be a visual gag deriving from the expression "A Night at the Opera".
  • The appearance of the two singers is a visual gag intended to be a pun on the famous novel "The Phantom of the Opera" in which a deformed songwriter named Erik lives in the catacombs beneath a Parisian Opera House and uses illusions to convince the world that he is a ghost.
  • The female opera singer is sometimes referred to as Harriet, as there is a tombstone in the Liberty Square Mansion attributed to "first lady of the opera, our haunting Harriet"
  • The male opera singer's name is currently unknown.
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