Vienna, 1785: Mozart is commissioned a new opera as part of Roman Emperor Joseph II’s attempts to realize his ideal of enlightened absolutism. Vienna, 2006: Paul Rosenberg, government employee and frustrated musicologist, receives a letter written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The letter contains information that could prove a daring hypothesis that claims the existence of a lost opera. In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the famed composer, its discovery could prove monumental.
