SERVANTS MASTERS and ROGUES

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Carlo Goldoni'</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>s comic play '</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Servant of Two Masters</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>' which a renowned musicologist believes could be </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a lost Mozart opera</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p></p>