Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She is visited by her "tenor for the evening." Equally terrified and nervous yet excited, she thinks fondly of her brother, who died from AIDS. He appears to her in her dressing room as a ghostly apparition.

Cast

Bernadette Peters

The Soprano

Nathan Lane

The Stage Manager

Paul Sorvino

The Tenor

Tony Goldwyn

Scott

Bill Irwin

The Maestro