Violins and Violets | Hilary Hale
Historical, Romance
lgbt // musician // prague // 18th century
“Every evening, hundreds of people watched, enraptured, as her chin tilted up and her voice soared to the highest, as a woman showed what it meant to be a true artist, to devote herself so completely to her music that it was all she did. I would have liked to invite her to dinner. I would have loved to sing with her. But, of course, I could do neither without revealing my secret, and putting her in the impossible position of keeping it.”
When Katharina Schmidt’s father forbids her to compose, she flees Salzburg dressed as a man, and finds work in an opera house in Prague. When her true gender is revealed, she almost loses her position, but finds an unexpected ally in beautiful lead soprano, Magdalena.
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