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.
as Josef Mysliveček
as Caterina Gabrielli
as Marchioness
as Anna Fracassati
as Carlo Fracassati, Anna's brother
as Baron Manciniani, Anna's husband
as Orfeo Crispi
as Count Finocchietti
as Impresario Santoro
as Cornelia Rezzi
as Cornelia's father
as Noble Falier
as King of Naples
as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
as Leopold Mozart
as Duke of Noja
as Count of San Paolo
as Carmela, Neapolitan maid
as Man under the marquise's skirts
as Card player
as (singing voice)
as (singing voice)
as (singing voice)
as Caterina Gabrielli (singing voice)
as (singing voice)
as (singing voice)
as (singing voice)
as Servant
as Mary
