![]() Since they are one short after the departure of Magrat Garlick who left to become Queen of Lancre, they journey to Ankh-Morpork to bring Agnes Nitt back to join their coven as well as to obtain the money owed to Nanny Ogg by the publisher of her book, The Joye of Snacks. The story begins on the heath with the two Witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg (as in Macbeth) discussing when they will meet again and realizing that a coven needs three witches not two. Agnes Nitt, a girl from Lancre fits the role of the large buxom traditional looking opera star while Christine who is patterned after "Christine Daae" from the Phantom fits the more modern opera soprano style. Throughout the story there are references to the ongoing debates in operatic circles between on one hand the traditional large women who can sing but don't look anything like the character they are playing - the 50 year old "fat lady" playing the part of the consumptive young heroine - and on the other hand the young thin woman who looks the part but doesn't have the lungs to sing the role. The story pokes fun at opera in general and the Phantom of the Opera in particular. The title is a reference to the most well known song from the musical entitled "Masquerade". The story is an obvious parody of The Phantom of the Opera, which was originally a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux and made famous by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical version and earlier by the Lon Chaney film adaptation in 1925. ![]() Maskerade is the eighteenth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
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