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| author = Terry Pratchett
| central theme = Opera as art vs. opera as entertainment vs. opera as business
| elevator pitch = A spoof of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', with the Lancre witches as the viewpoint characters
| genre = Fantasy
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** Granny [[Predator|ain't got time to bleed]], or at least, not until later.
** Also, all the opera names. ''La Triviata'' for ''[[La Traviata]]'', ''The Ring of the Nibelungingung'' for ''[[Richard Wagner|The Ring of the Nibelung]]'', ''Il Truccatore'' for ''Il Trovatore'' and so on.
** Later, {{spoiler|Walter}} invents the modern musical and Nanny sees some of his ideas, such as [[Andrew Lloyd Webber|an opera about cats]], ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Miserable Les]]'' and ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers|Seven Dwarfs For Seven Other Dwarfs]]''.
* [[This Is My Name on Foreign]]: Henry Slugg becomes Enrico Basilica.
* [[True Beauty Is on the Inside]]: ''painfully'' subverted. In the end, despite the fact that Christine is just [[Brainless Beauty|very pretty]], [[Giftedly Bad|has no voice, and has absolutely no talent whatsoever]], [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|everyone in the opera still fawns over her]] and chooses ''her'' over Agnes, who is [[Magic Music|incredibly talented]] and who has been signing Christine's songs the entire time (something that is made very clear by the end that everyone knows).
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