An interlude in one act from the French by Enrico Golisciani. The English version by Claud Aveling.
Music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Noel Eadie (soprano)
Harold Williams (baritone)
Alfred Butler (narrator)
The BBC Midland Orchestra
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward
The action of this charming little jeu d'esprit takes place in the villa of a Piedmontese nobleman, Count Gil, about the middle of last century. Count Gil enters his wife's boudoir and is assailed by the faint aroma of tobacco. His suspicions are immediately aroused and he gives vent to his anger and jealousy-such is the feeling of the time towards any hint of a wife's departure from the strict code of morals. Eventually it appears that Susanna has not been receiving a male visitor, but has merely been indulging in cigarette smoking. Her secret is discovered-a weakness for smoking-but she is forgiven, and the curtain goes down on husband and wife smoking their cigarettes together.
(From Midland)