The Carnival of the Animals on 2 April at the home of Pauline Viardot with an audience including Franz Liszt, a friend of the composer, who had expressed a wish to hear the work. There were other private performances, typically for the French mid-Lent festival of , but Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work would not be published in his lifetime, seeing it as detracting from his "serious" composer image. He relented only for the famous cello solo "The Swan", which forms the penultimate movement of the work, and which was published in 1887 in an arrangement by the composer for cello and solo piano
Carnival in Italy the Carnival of Ivrea was modified by adding representatives of the French army who help the miller's wife. Parades of allegorical floats and flower floats, into a baroque circuit, are one of the attractions of the Best Carnival in Sicily, a typical carnival night. The Carnival of Acireale each year attracts visitors from around the world. One of the most evocative Carnival of Italy is the Carnival of Satriano di Lucania with his three ancestral masks: the lant, bear and hermit. The show takes place in a small town of the historical Lucania geographic area and draws the attention of