 However, "it failed to supersede "I Lombardi" in the affections of Italian audiences"
and certainly, as Parker comments, while overall being superior to "Lombardi" in various ways, "it failed to establish itself in either the French or the Italian repertory".However, the opera was given in Turin in 1850 and between 1854 and 1865, in Venice, Verona and Rome (twice).The US premiere was presented at the Théâtre d'Orleans in New Orleans on 24 January 1850.