I found the synopsis of the opera:
Fadaroxis.............Young baker.................................Gabriel Marduvishnevsakoncunis
Birunika................Young fruit seller.........................Marja Kardiska
Looukicha............Her mother...................................Anna-Maria Merket
Laonie..................Fadaroxis' sister..........................Jeanne Alevy
Pouloucha...........A sheriff..........................................Marlimo Cadicio
Kamilaa...............Faradoxis' mother .......................Violeta Castaldones
Statue...................Magic statue from the village.....John Frier
Act I
Scene 1
The market place of a village
Fadaroxis and Laonie sell bread at the market place; Birunika arrives and installs herself beside them. Seeing her, Fadaroxis falls insanely in love with her; Laonie, who is a friend of Birunika, explains to her brother how to do to make Birunika be interested in him.
Scene 2
Fadaroxis is ready to go to talk to Birunika when Pouloucha, Birunika's boyfriend, arrives and proposes to her. She immediately accepts and says she wants to marry him in 3 days. They both leave.
Scene 3
Fadaroxis laments himself in the famous aria « Ma perchè non m'ami? », because in 3 days he'll have joined the army to fight in the war and he maybe won't see Birunika ever again. So, he decides to let his enemies kill him during the war. However, he asks to the magic statue that is in the middle of the place to let him be with Birunika even if it's only for some minutes.
Scene 4
Laonie, having heard the lamentations of Fadaroxis runs to see Birunika and explains to her in the aria “un altro t'ama” that Fadaroxis, only seeing her, fell in love with her and that he's ready to die in the war to make his sufferings shorter. The 2 friends decide to plan to meet Fadaroxis in the evening.
Scene 5
Pouloucha and his friends are happy about the marriage and dance around the statue. Fadaroxis arrives and asks Pouloucha to let him speak with Birunika, but Pouloucha, hating Fadaroxis, refuses and says that he will kill him if he doesn't leave immediately. Fadaroxis refuses to leave and wants to die to make his suffering even shorter. Pouloucha and his friends think that Fadaroxis is insane and make fun of him, Pouloucha asks the magic statue to make Fadaroxis be sane again to be able to kill him in a duel. Birunika and Laonie arrive, Birunika implores the statue to prevent Pouloucha from killing Fadaroxis and Laonie asks the statue to prevent her brother from making silly things. It is total chaos on the place of the market, ones fights, others implore the statue, others shout, others cry, everyone runs everywhere... and the act finishes with the statue shouting: “Mi confondete!!! (You're driving me crazy!!!)”
Act II
Scene 1
Same place, in the evening
Birunika is alone on the market place; she waits for Laonie to come with Fadaroxis. In her aria “cos'è questo? ” she has the impression that she's starting to have feelings for Fadaroxis, and that she doesn't really want to marry Pouloucha anymore.
Scene 2
Fadaroxis and Laonie arrive and, seeing Birunika, Faradoxis faints, Laonie then decides to leave them alone and leaves. Birunika then realizes that she loves Fadaroxis; she awakes him and, in the aria “Ebbene, signore”, tells him that she has feeling for him. Fadaroxis is the happiest man, and after a passionate duet, the two lovers stay here, sitting on a bench, and kissing.
Scene 3
Pouloucha arrives and, seeing Fadaroxis and Birunika, swears to kill Fadaroxis, he then decides to make the village come and see what his fiancée is doing.
Scene 4
Pouloucha comes back with Laonie, Looukicha, Kamilaa and the rest of the village; everybody is very surprised when they see Birunika asleep in the arms of Fadaroxis (also asleep) and they decide to arrest them. There's a new chaos, Pouloucha takes back his engagement ring, Laonie, Fadaroxis and Birunika implore the statue to have pity for them, Looukicha and Kamilaa blame their children, and the rest of the village asks the statue to punish Fadaroxis and Birunika. This act also finishes with the statue shouting: “Mi confondete!!! (You're driving me crazy!!!)”
Act III
Scene 1
A prison
Fadaroxis tells Birunika that he's sorry because he's the cause of all that but she tells him that she will die with him if it's necessary.
Scene 2
Laonie arrives and announces that Pouloucha made them be sentenced to death and that he will himself kill Fadaroxis but that Looukicha, Kamilaa and she have planned to free them the day of the execution. Fadaroxis and Birunika are happy.
Scene 3
The market place
It is the day of the execution, Laonie, Looukicha and Kamilaa ask to the statue to support them in freeing Birunika and Fadaroxis.
Scene 4
The village arrives with the two lovers, Fadaroxis will be decapitated and Birunika burned. But, Laonie, Looukicha and Kamilaa, who have secretly put fire at the place, shout “fire! fire!” and it's chaos again, and in this chaos Fadaroxis and Birunika try to escape, but Pouloucha surprises them and shoots Fadaroxis, who falls, close to death. Then, Birunika, Laonie, Looukicha and Kamilaa implore the statue to save Fadaroxis. The statue, astonishing everyone, begins to move, approaches Fadaroxis and cures him. Then, the whole village begins to ask the statue for minor help. The lovers, Laonie, Looukicha and Kamilaa benefit from this moment to escape. Pouloucha tries to destroy the statue because it saved Fadaroxis, but he is transformed into another statue. People of the village put the statue in his place and put Pouloucha's statue beside it laughing and still asking the statues for minor help. The opera finishes with the statue, this time accompanied by Pouloucha, shouting: “Mi confondete!!! (You're driving me crazy!!!)”
