Who composed the music for the 1909 opera Susanna's Secret?
Il segreto di Susanna Il segreto di Susanna Il segreto di Susanna (English: "Susanna's Secret", German: "Susannens Geheimnis") is an intermezzo in one act by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Enrico Golisciani. The premiere of the opera was in German, in a translation by Max Kalbeck, at the Hoftheater in Munich on 4 December 1909. Count Gil returns home suspecting that he has seen his wife, Susanna, walking alone in the street, something he had forbidden her to do after their wedding. He is relieved when he discovers that she is playing the piano in the living room. However, it was the
The Secret (opera) The Secret (opera) The Secret () is a comic opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana. The libretto was written by Eliška Krásnohorská. The premiere took place on 18 September 1878 at the Nové České Divadlo (New Czech Theatre) in Prague. Krásnohorská proposed the idea for a new opera to Smetana two weeks after the opening of "The Kiss", but kept details of the plot a secret from the composer until July 1877, when a draft outline, drawing on several sources, including "Les femmes et le secret" by La Fontaine, was sent to him. The librettist had set the action