Niccolo Carini, the greatest Italian tenor of 1844, senses that his voice is changing after he is given a miraculous mechanical writing man. Larry Schiavo, an over-the-hill tenor in New York City in 2013, suddenly gains astonishing new vocal powers. Larry blows out the windows of Carnegie Hall on the night he performs there and becomes the wonder of the opera world. But is Larry really Larry? To whom does his voice really belong? Two centuries and two worlds intersect in this joyfully dark novel about music, friendship, opera, art, and love.