This is a play about the megalomaniacal, tragic and passionate world of opera. Surrounded by the director of Milan's La Scala, a retired baritone and the young diva, Teresa Stoltz, with whom he is very much taken, composer Giuseppe Verdi is forced to write his opera, Don Carlo, for political reasons.

« VERDI : What? La Stolz is here? / THE DIRECTOR : Bring her in. (Terziani exits.) / VERDI : La Stolz? Not La Stolz! / THE DIRECTOR : Didn't you say publicly that you wanted to hear her again? In private? Your wishes are our desires, Maestro. / VERDI : Never. I will not be part of your scheming. »

"Rarely has a playwright mixed genres, historical facts, comedy, passion and drama with such dexterity, such imagination. In Je vous écris du Caire, theatre slips into the wings at the opera." Jean Beaunoyer, La Presse, October 30, 1995.