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Mario Alfieri is the world's greatest tenor. He is also rumoured to be the world's greatest lover. When he arrives in New York in 1894 to prepare for his first season at the Metropolitan Opera House all Manhattan is aflame with excitement. Success it seems is assured - until he meets Clara Adler. This bewitching orphan lives in the mansion of her late guardian penniless and alone except for the unwelcome attentions of Thaddeus Chadwick the lawyer who controls the estate. Mario and Clara fall hopelessly in love. But Chadwick is determined to keep Clara for himself and will stop at nothing to destroy all that Mario and Clara hold most dear...