Bettine

The opera singer Bettine gave up her career for her consuming love, a toxic Baron de Steinberg, whom she followed to Italy and is set to marry today.

Yet as the Notary is already present, the Baron confesses to his servant Calabre that having relapsed into gambling, it is at the neighboring palace, at the home of a dubious Princess who hosts pleasure parties and runs gambling tables, that he unfailingly goes to complete his ruin.

In this rather equivocal situation, a former admirer of the Diva, the Marquis Stéfani, suddenly arrives.