 "Il mondo della luna" and the other works in Doráti's Haydn cycle were only taped after Philips's producer, Erik Smith, had secured support from the European Broadcasting Union.The opera was recorded using analogue technology in September 1977 in the Grande Salle of the community theatre in Épalinges, a village high in the hills above Lausanne, Switzerland.The bonus arias included in the appendix of the CD issue of the album were recorded in the same location in June 1980.