The story of Caffé Taci, downtown Manhattan: the craziest place in the opera universe, with diamond dealers, losers, up-and-coming singers, opera stars like René Pape, an-85-year-old Russian pianist, aficionados, agents and bohemians. Life is a big opera production! A touch of Fellini is guaranteed. Master of the small opera cosmos: the Italian Leopoldo Mucci – the Belcanto godfather of Manhattan.