Lothaire Bluteau

Disappearances -- Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, Quebec Bill and his son embark on an unforgettable trip. This treacherous journey through the wilderness will lead them to discover a haunted and elusive past.

A retired cop's brother convinces him to purchase a racehorse with a lucrative payoff potential. Their jockey, however, is deeply indebted to the mob, and the mob seizes the racehorse. The brothers decide to take on the mob themselves.

Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, Quebec Bill and his son embark on an unforgettable trip. This treacherous journey through the wilderness will lead them to discover a haunted and elusive past.

The great soldier Orlando is lovesick and shows little intention of resuming his former glorious and heroic deeds. When Orlando enters, he is a man clearly torn between his love of fame and his love for Angelica. "Orlando teaches all of us that love is often responsible for our loss of reason," runs a line from Act 3 of the opera. It is a modest moral, and perhaps one not demanding of the dramatic finesse and musical diversity that Handel serves up in Orlando - for the opera's complex of problems is rather more complicated than that. Beneath the fabric of this masterfully woven constellation of characters and values is a score of such independence and vivacity as to give Orlando a special position among Handel's works - indeed among opera literature in general.