Sex and power, jealousy and rage, despair, menace, death - the haunting themes of Baroque opera. WIth arias and duets from Händel's operas Amadigi, Alcina and Rinaldo, international best-selling mystery author, Donna Leon, creates the tale of The Abandoned Sorceress (La Maga Abbandonata), a story about a sorceress and the hero she loves, who in song tell of the excess and pain to which they have been driven.