SERVANTS MASTERS and ROGUES

<p>Music critic Hugo Belcher in twenty-first century London is a charming rogue who forever short of money plans to marry a wealthy young heiress. </p><p>Meanwhile Sandra Grisewood a bright working-class girl moves to London where she hopes one day to realise her dream of becoming an opera singer. Born in eighteenth-century Prague music teacher Antonin Vasylicek another rogue and charmer flees to England to evade his creditors and escape a scandal. Their separate lives are however related in various ways not least the discovery of the score of an opera based on <strong>Carlo Goldoni'</strong>s comic play '<strong>The Servant of Two Masters</strong>' which a renowned musicologist believes could be <strong>a lost Mozart opera</strong>. </p><p>There is an element of truth which provided the inspiration for this book namely that Mozart was indeed writing or intending to write a German opera based on Goldoni's play for which a letter to his father dated 5 February 1783 provides evidence but no score has ever come to light. </p><p></p>