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During Carnival in Paris, Marguérite and Angèle test their husbands’ fidelity by arranging masked meetings at an opera ball with ladies wearing pink dominoes. The husbands mistake one another and the chambermaid Hortense for their intended partners. Back home, confusion escalates toward a duel until the wives reveal their intact dominoes and Hortense’s part is exposed.
Parisian lawyers Fauvinard and Tardivaut invent a trial as an alibi for their affairs, but their mistresses and other lovers converge in one apartment. Their efforts to avoid discovery drive a frantic farce of entrances, exits and false identities before the men return to their wives.
Two wives test their husbands’ fidelity by disguising themselves in pink dominoes at a masked ball and attempting to seduce each other’s spouse. Mistaken identities and shifting couples create a farcical chain of confusion before the women forgive their husbands.
An operetta by Johann Strauss II with a libretto by Karl Treumann, after Victor Wilder and Alfred Delacour.
Two wives test their husbands' fidelity by sending them invitations to a masked ball. Their husbands accept, but a mischievous maid in a similar pink domino gown creates a tangle of mistaken identities, secret suppers, and misplaced blame.
Operetta composer Florestan, fleeing a jealous husband, creditors and a bailiff, hides in Suzanne’s room. Suzanne and her friend Rosita try to get him out unnoticed; when Florestan realizes that Suzanne’s husband is also the bailiff pursuing him, he asks Rosita to marry him so his aunt will pay his debts.
During Carnival in Paris, Marguérite and Angèle test their husbands’ fidelity by arranging masked meetings at an opera ball with ladies wearing pink dominoes. The husbands mistake one another and the chambermaid Hortense for their intended partners. Back home, confusion escalates toward a duel until the wives reveal their intact dominoes and Hortense’s part is exposed.
Parisian lawyers Fauvinard and Tardivaut invent a trial as an alibi for their affairs, but their mistresses and other lovers converge in one apartment. Their efforts to avoid discovery drive a frantic farce of entrances, exits and false identities before the men return to their wives.
Two wives test their husbands’ fidelity by disguising themselves in pink dominoes at a masked ball and attempting to seduce each other’s spouse. Mistaken identities and shifting couples create a farcical chain of confusion before the women forgive their husbands.
An operetta by Johann Strauss II with a libretto by Karl Treumann, after Victor Wilder and Alfred Delacour.
Two wives test their husbands' fidelity by sending them invitations to a masked ball. Their husbands accept, but a mischievous maid in a similar pink domino gown creates a tangle of mistaken identities, secret suppers, and misplaced blame.
Operetta composer Florestan, fleeing a jealous husband, creditors and a bailiff, hides in Suzanne’s room. Suzanne and her friend Rosita try to get him out unnoticed; when Florestan realizes that Suzanne’s husband is also the bailiff pursuing him, he asks Rosita to marry him so his aunt will pay his debts.