Musical TheatrePassion
Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine · 1994
A soldier stationed in a remote Italian fortress finds himself torn between his passionate love for a beautiful woman in Milan and the obsessive devotion of Fosca, a sickly, tormented woman who pursues him with consuming intensity. As Fosca's emotional and physical deterioration deepens, the soldier discovers that true passion transcends beauty and reason, forcing him to confront the nature of love itself. Sondheim's operatic score charts the psychological unraveling of desire, guilt, and redemption in this chamber musical of extraordinary emotional power.