Le dilettante d'Avignon
At a theatre in Avignon, the French director Casanova claims to love Italian music although he cannot speak Italian and is musically illiterate. After dismissing his French musicians, he auditions supposed Italian singers who are the same performers in disguise. The theatre’s singing director also poses as Italian while courting Casanova’s daughter; the disguises are exposed, and the company agrees to draw on both French and Italian traditions.