The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.
Josef Mysliveček

Caterina Gabrielli

Marchioness

Anna Fracassati

Carlo Fracassati, Anna's brother

Baron Manciniani, Anna's husband

Orfeo Crispi

Count Finocchietti

Impresario Santoro
Cornelia Rezzi

Cornelia's father

Noble Falier

King of Naples

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Leopold Mozart

Duke of Noja

Count of San Paolo

Carmela, Neapolitan maid

Man under the marquise's skirts

Card player

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Caterina Gabrielli (singing voice)

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Servant

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Mary