 Da Ponte's librettos for "L'arbore di Diana" and "Così fan tutte" were the only ones of his not taken from an existing plot.The opera's premiere on 1 October 1787 marked a visit to Vienna of the niece of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, the Archduchess Maria Teresa, who was on her way to Dresden to marry Prince Anton Clemens of Saxony in person (they had been married by proxy in Florence the month before).The work was enormously successful in its day, but Martín's operas have since fallen from the repertoire.