Duration: full evening
Text by T. dHèle
Translation: German (E. Walch/W. Ebermann)
Place and time: Cádiz, middle of the 18th century

Characters: Lopez de la Plata, Spanish Trader (bass) - Leonora, his Daughter (soprano) - Don Alonso, her Lover (tenor) - Isabella, whose sister (soprano) - Florival, French Officer, whose Lover (tenor) - Jacinta, Dienerin Leonoras (soprano)

Léonore, daughter of a merchant, is a widow already. Under no circumstances does her father want her to remarry, as otherwise, he would lose the capital he had invested in the business of his daughter’s deceased husband. Léonore, however, is in love with her friend Isabelle’s brother, Don Alonze, who is courting Léonore. Without further ado, he (and likewise his sister) is denied access to the house. Isabelle is to be wed, but her lover Florival, a French officer, releases her, and both escape to Lopez’s house where Léonore is staying. All united under one roof, a wild game of hide-and-seek starts that involves quite a lot of confusion ...