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From: Phantom of the Opera
Date: 05/25/2010

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Synopsis:

Eisenstein is due to report to prison, having defaulted on his taxes. He is 
induced, however, to attend a fancy-dress party at Prince Orlofsky's, by his 
friend Dr Falke, who plans revenge for having been abandoned on a previous 
occasion to go home in his costume of a bat. Eisenstein's wife takes the 
opportunity of his absence for an assignation in her house with Alfred, who is 
mistaken by Frank, the prison governor, for her husband and taken to prison. 
Adele has sought various excuses for taking time off and in a borrowed dress 
attends Prince Orlofsky's party, where Rosalinde also appears, disguised as a 
Hungarian countess. In a play of disguises and partly mistaken identities 
Eisenstein flirts with his own wife and toasts, under the guise of the Marquis 
Renard, the prison governor Frank, introduced as the Chevalier Chagrin. They 
leave together, Eisenstein now intending to report to the prison. There the 
gaoler Frosch has drunken objections to the singing of Alfred. Adele and her 
sister, who have dramatic ambitions, seek Frank's help in furthering their 
stage careers, while Eisenstein, who now arrives, cannot persuade Frank at 
first of his identity and when he learns that the supposed Eisenstein is 
already in prison is suspicious of Rosalinde. Disguised as his lawyer Dr Blind, 
he cross-examines Rosalinde and Alfred, but she retaliates, when he reveals his
identity, by producing Eisenstein's watch, which the supposed Hungarian countess
had received from him at Prince Orlofsky's. Falke admits his part in the plot,
Rosalinde and Alfred claim their assignation as a part of it, 
and all ends in apparent satisfaction.