Royal Doulton neatly designed and colored. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, D7017. This one is marked no. The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe. Based on the 1910 French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, it tells the tragic story of a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. The musical opened in London’s West End in 1986 and on Broadway in New York in 1988. No chips, cracks or glazing.