Il Segretto di Susanna is an opera in one company of Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari on a libretto by Enrico Golisciani. The first performance took place in the Hoftheater in Munich on December 4, 1909, in a German translation of Max Kalbeck. Story Reading Warning: The following text contains details about the content and / or the end of the story.
Count Gil comes home because he thought his wife Susanna was walking alone on the street, something he had forbidden her after marriage. He is relieved that he finds her behind the piano. However, she just came home for him. However, Gil's relief is short-lived. The room smells like tobacco, and that's strange, because neither he nor his wife, nor the servant Sante, smoke. Then he thinks Susanna is unfaithful to him, and receives a visit from someone who smokes. He talks to his wife, and is ashamed of such suspicions. He wants to hug her, but he catches the smoke air that comes from Susanna's clothes. Eventually, she admits she has a secret, but she does not want to say what it is. Gil becomes angry and searches the whole house after she has locked herself in her bedroom. Eventually he wants to go to his club, and she will bring him his umbrella. They reconcile and he goes away.
As soon as he's out of the house, she closes the door and opens the package she gave Sante when she came home. She takes out a cigarette and both smoke. That's the secret! But then Gil returns, he smells the cigarette smoke and he searches the house again without any results. Gil goes away furiously and Susanna puts another cigarette. Again, Gil comes home with the intention of catching her up. He wants to know what she hides behind her back, and burns his hand to the cigarette. They forgive each other and put together a cigarette.
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