<p>When narrator Julian Harcourt, on his way to the Met Opera, is knocked down by a taxi in front of Lincoln Center, he has no expectation that a handsome young man&mdash;a tenor&mdash;will help him up.&nbsp; But Stuart Kreisler happens to be right there.&nbsp; And then they both have to decide if a friendship will follow.&nbsp; Will Julian be swept off his feet&mdash;figuratively, this time?&nbsp; Or does the universe have quite different plans?</p><p>Julian is living a good life, isn&rsquo;t he?&nbsp; He has a career and an apartment he adores.&nbsp; He has loving relationships: &nbsp;Christina Grimaldi and Rebecca Cathcart are not just fine singers but devoted friends.&nbsp; Julian also has pretty much all the sex he can handle.&nbsp; And then he meets Michael Fernandez, and then everything begins to change.</p><p><em>OPERA OBSESSED</em> is about coming to terms with the past and facing the realities of the present.&nbsp; Julian must work his way through the most painful losses of his childhood and his youth in order to find a path to the future.&nbsp; Readers will find his story warm, funny, erotic, moving, and richly satisfying.</p>