While George Cutley is painting the portrait of Lady Beauclair in 1770s London, she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's op... » 

While George Cutley is painting the portrait of Lady Beauclair in 1770s London, she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera 50 years before. He then hears a tragic tale from Eleanora, one that will have him unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano. «