Masters of the Opera

Sakura Matsuo scores another triumph at the Metropolitan Opera singing as Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Afterward, she talks Bertrand into setting aside his plan to get his wife to divorce him and to get back at her, so that they could go on a romantic trip to Italy. Bertrand and Sakura fly to Italy where they vacation in Venice, Rome and the countryside of Tuscany. They make love at a villa. After their romantic getaway is over, they fly back to the United States.