The Black Opera

Naples, the 19th Century. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, holy music has power. Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick or raising the dead. But some believe that the musicodramma of grand opera can also work magic by channeling powerful emotions into something sublime. Now the Prince's Men, a secret society, hope to stage their own black opera to empower the Devil himself - and change Creation for the better! Conrad Scalese is a struggling librettist whose latest opera has landed him in trouble with the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Rescued by King Ferdinand II, Conrad finds himself recruited to write and stage a counter opera that will, hopefully, cancel out the apocalyptic threat of the black opera, provided the Prince's Men, and their spies and saboteurs, don't get to him first. And he only has six weeks to do it...

ISBN 1597802190   Pages 550 ISBN13 9781597802192 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 612 Publisher Night Shade Books   Published in Newberg Imprint Night Shade Books   Height (mm) 229 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 01 May 2012   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC23

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