After Xiao, a singer in the Peking Opera, grows jealous of her understudy and disfigures her with boiling water, she is turned away and becomes a teacher; unhappily married and overweight at forty, she is offered a chance to reprise her old role while believing herself to be the immortal moon goddess.

Luigi the rooster wins fame and fortune when the star of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company and his understudy both come down with chicken pox on the same night.

Tamino battles the evil Queen of the Night to rescue his beloved Pamina.

Sequel to: The rebel angels and What's bred in the bone. The Cornish Foundation, against all common sense, undertakes to stage an opera. Many of the participants find unusual, unexplained happenings in their lives, as the production takes shape.

Set in 17th-century China, See's fifth novel is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. (From Publishers Weekly)

After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.

Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.

A retelling of Mozart's opera The magic flute, including a biographical section about Mozart and a behind-the-scenes account of a performance of the work by the Salzburger Marionettentheater, illustrated with photographs.