LOVE, MURDER, BLUES... OPERA.

Set during the dirty 30's "Une Chanson d'Amour" (French for "A Love Song") is a blues-opera told in 3 acts and 13 songs, telling the legendary tale of bluesman Amadeo L. Gauthier and his rise to stardom as blues-poet extraordinaire.

Spanning a period of 10 years (from 1927 to 1937) this story chronicles the events leading upto Amadeo L. Gauthier's release from a southern chain-gang and the début of his masterpiece "Une Chanson d'Amour" itself, telling his story of a murder in a Parisian speakeasy, an enduring quest for freedom, a dangerous deal made with the Devil at a Crossroads in Mississippi, and his eventual lost love and triumphant though embittered rise to fame.

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