Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Crispino E La Comare; The Cobbler and the Fairy: An Opera in Three Acts
Crispino and Annetta his wife are. A luckless, pen: niless couple, with a large family. The former endeavors to earn his bread as a cobbler, the latter tries to realize a tri?e by selling songs and bal lads in the streets 1 but they are both signally un successful. They are threatened by their landlord with a distraint for rent, and Crispino, driven lit crolly wild by despair, resolves to put an end to his woes by throwing himself into a well. He is just about to fulfill his rash intention, when a Fairy rises from the well, and bids him take heart, for she will henceforth protect and provide for him. The Fairy proceeds to inform him that, in order to carry out a certain speculation of her own. She ih tends forthwith to make an Illustrious Doctor of him adding that, whenever he visits a patient, he. Must be careful to look around and note wheth er shc be present (invisible to all save Crispino), for in that case the patient will die, but should she not make her appearance, the sufferer will surely recover.
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