When Monteverdi's lost operas surface, so does a killer desperate to possess them. . . Haydn is intrigued until Her Majesty, Empress...
Preoccupied with preparations for the opera season at Eszterh za, Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn receives a curious request from a friend in Vienna. Kaspar, an impoverished violinist with an ailing wife, wishes Haydn to evaluate a collection of scores reputed to be the lost operas of Monteverdi.