Driftwood, mistakenly thinking Fiorello is referring to Lassparri, signs Ricardo to a contract.ĭriftwood, Mrs. Fiorello appears and identifies himself as the manager of the 'greatest tenor in the world'. Driftwood arrives and finds Lassparri attacking Tomasso, his dresser (Harpo), who knocks Lassparri unconscious by hitting him over the head with a mallet. Ricardo is in love with the soprano, Rosa Castaldi (Kitty Carlisle), who is also being courted by Lassparri.

Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri (Walter Woolf King), the 'greatest tenor since Caruso'.īackstage at the opera house, chorister Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones) hires his best friend Fiorello (Chico) to be his manager. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman), director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. When she discovers him seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs.

Claypool (Margaret Dumont) has stood her up and is having dinner with another woman in the very same restaurant. Driftwood (Groucho), business manager for wealthy dowager Mrs.

Marx brothers a night at the opera 1935