Overview

Vissi d’Arte is a hauntingly beautiful love story of reunion, loss, and the healing power of music. When world-renowned soprano Sasha Alekseeva reaches the pinnacle of her career, a diagnosis threatens not only her voice, but her sense of self. Into this silence returns Chiara Riva, the quiet pianist who once held Sasha’s heart before fate pulled them apart twenty-three years earlier.
Set against the timeless backdrop of Paris and the sun-drenched coast of France, this deeply intimate novella traces the emotional and physical recovery of a woman whose identity was forged in art—and the love that dares her to begin again.
Catherine Martini crafts a powerful, lyrical tale where the stage becomes memory, the voice becomes vulnerability, and love—unspoken for decades—finds its highest note.