A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel where the world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact provisions that will influence the world economy. One guest is a mysterious Italian monk, Salus, invited by Daniel Rochè, the Director of the International Monetary Fund. Rochè wants him to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead and Salus is now the main suspect in his death. *"The Confessions...

Gabriel Faurè considered Umberto Giordano's Siberia to be one of the most interesting and singular works of the early 20th century. The opera's tragic narrative follows Prince Alexis's courtesan Stephana. She falls in love with an innocent soldier, Vassili, who is sent to Siberia for killing the Prince. Stephana gives up her life of luxury to follow him but cannot escape her past. With its intensely Russian atmosphere and passionately soaring melodies,...