Features Igor Stravinsky's opera "Le Rossignol", based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Emperor and the Nightingale", and a documentary on Stravinsky.
An opera set in Chicago's Cook County Court House is based on the 1875 trial of Mary Todd Lincoln to determine if she should be committed to an insane asylum. The competency hearing serves as a backdrop for flashbacks to events In the former First Lady's life.