Broadcast: 25 February 1946

Starring: Basil Rathbone

Added: Jun 13 2001

Holmes and Watson were holidaying in Rome and after all the sights they'd seen, like the Coliseum, St Peter's, The Forum, they spent an evening at the opera listening to the famous Italian Soprano Gina Valcasi singing Verdi's immortal La Traviatta. They had received a request from La Valcasi to visit her in her dressing room. It was quite common knowledge that Gina Valcasi was not well liked at the Opera House. They waited outside her dressing room for her to come off stage but when she arrived she rebuffed them and demanded they be removed…