When God killed Onan, the expectation was that she would marry the third brother Shelah. However, their father Judah refused to give him to her in marriage. Tamar dis- guised herself as a prostitute and Judah engaged her "services" and impregnated her. When Judah dis- covered Tamar was ...
Sandrina loves Nanni, though her father plans to marry her off to the rich farmer Nencio. Nanni's resourceful sister Vespina (the name means 'little wasp') has designs on Nencio herself. And thanks largely to her machinations (including a series of comic disguises), the opera ends with ...