Peter Hinton

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

London is in lock-down whilst the police search for a terrorist suspect who has escaped from a violent attack the previous evening. Meanwhile Katy, a fun-loving young woman, wakes up with a severe hangover and memory-loss, along with a mysterious man in her bed.

Rufus Wainwright's original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns in the Nile River. While matters of state encroach on his grief, and advisors clamour for war against a radical new threat to the Empire, Hadrian slips out of time to re-encounter the vision and reality of Antinous—and learn the truth about what happened on the Nile.