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This period piece begins with Sabrina Elsley, lonely and alone, as she stumbles onto her fate as an emerging opera composer discovers her voice on the streets of London in 1806.
In London society, it was acceptable for a man to take a mistress, but distasteful to fall in love. So when Harold Winbow offers such a thing to Sabrina in exchange for a chance to sing in his Opera House, she readily accepts. Embracing the risk for this chance of a life-time, she is whisked away into her new life. Through hard work and patience, success finds her, but so does love - a forbidden thing for a married man and his mistress. But they are not deterred by this scandalous affair and enjoy a blissful year of happiness, finally content .
Through her voice, Harold’s Opera House grows in notoriety and Sabrina’s fame spreads far and wide. So far that Clarissa Winbow hears of her husband’s scandalous relationship and returns home to witness for herself if the gossip were true. Humiliated and angry, Clarissa retaliates in the cruelest of ways, turning the life Harold and Sabrina had found together into one of his own tragic operas.