Zanoni

At Naples’s San Carlo, Gaetano Pisani’s violin strays from the score, and a single wild flourish can make the audience think the witches have seized his bow.

In Naples in the latter half of the eighteenth century, Pisani composes music too strange for polite ears and dreams of an opera no one will perform. His world of haunting melodies and uncanny fancies opens onto a larger mystery: Viola, a young opera singer, attracts the attention of Zanoni, a man whose life and knowledge seem to reach beyond the human. As revolutionary storms gather, love threatens the very immortality that has kept him beyond the reach of time. What must Zanoni surrender to choose a mortal heart?

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