"Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesn't like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof-- distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tell Michelle the story of the gypsy, Carmen, her imagination is captured. For, just as in Bizet's opera, her soldier father is stationed in Seville ... and she fears he will never return. Set in Paris, in 1875, the video is the story...

Little Reliana finds herself transported through time back to Rossini's theater where she is invisible to everyone but the composer. She watches in alarm as one of the singers puts a curse on the production and everything begins to go wrong.

With his career failing, Handel needed a big hit. A young thief with a wonderful voice lands in jail and Handel secures his release so that the boy can perform in the first performance of "Messiah.