in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1994 Tony Award winning musical PASSION.
A wondrously complex landscape of the human heart is the subject of this haunting, intensely emotional chamber opera that is set in nineteenth-century, war-torn Italy. It tells of the passionate affair between a handsome army captain, separated from his beautiful mistress who is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel’s plain, sickly cousin.