Lavish musical charting the mixed fortunes of a poor poet with supposed mystical powers. The poet is pressured into using his special gifts to arrange a marriage between the son of a scheming vizier and a princess. But then fate - or kismet - plays its hand.

The memorable tunes, including And This is My Beloved and Stranger in Paradise, are based on the work of the 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin. Show less