In Budapest a young operatic soprano Elena Korvin is struggling to rehearse the part of Marguerite in the Opera Gounod's Faust despite the assistance from her loving husband Sándor Korvin, the orchestra's conductor. Later the Opera House's owner Baron Hunyadi attempts to win Elena's heart to draw her away from her husband but Elena refuses. She leaves with a fearful threat from Hunyadi that her career in his opera house will end. Elena loses hope of succeeding as Marguerite believing she is not good enough. But her husband Korvin insists that she is good and proves so by convincing her to be calm and confident. In revenge for Elena refusing to love him the baron bribes a man [Who had already made a deal with Korvin to help encourage Elena during the show] to make the audience boo and despi