La donna serpente is a fable by Carlo Gozzi which premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, in 1762.
The play was adapted as a children's TV film, broadcast Rete 1, 26 March 1976, directed by it:Alessandro Brissoni, starring Ave Ninchi, Carlo Bagno, Enrico Osterman and Gianni Bortolotto.
Farruscad is made to swear never to curse his wife Cherestani, no matter what she does.
[2] The fable was the basis for Wagner's Die Feen (1833) and Casella's La donna serpente (1932), but not—as sometimes incorrectly reported—Friedrich Heinrich Himmel's 1806 opera Die Sylphen, which is based on another Gozzi fable, La Zobeide.
Wagner altered and selected from Gozzi's plot, changing the names of Princess Cherestani and Farruscad to Ada and Arindal.