Plot summary

The plot takes place in Beecham House, a retirement home for former professional musicians, patterned after the real-life Casa Di Riposo per Musicisti founded by Giuseppe Verdi. Reggie (Sir Tom Courtenay), Wilf (Sir Billy Connolly), and Cissy (Pauline Collins) are retired opera singers who often worked together in the past; among other residents are Cedric Livingston (Sir Michael Gambon), a former director, and diva Anne Langley (Dame Gwyneth Jones). All of the guests in the retirement home continue to be engaged in their former professions in one way or the other, including lecturing and initiating young people to music.