Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, 1876, Act 1

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, 1876

Belgian premiere; ‘the event of the season […] more memorable than expected, no doubt’ (Isnardon, 554); revivals until 1901; the performance of Saturday September 29, 1876 was attended by Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, a brother of Franz Joseph I.