A cheery audience at Perugino Caffè

Soprano Nobuko Wingard sings the musical interludes

"Prologo" introduces the play and the characters

Dramatis Personae

Palamede helps love-smitten friend Cleandro

Nicomaco, Cleandro's father, also desires Clizia

Nicomaco and wife Sofronia hold a drawing to pick a proper mate for Clizia

Very hopeful suitor Eustachio has lost the drawing

Nicomaco recalls in a flashback his getting duped and brought back to matrimonial reason

Nathalie
Hester and Gina Psaki, Italianist spectators