In 1878 productions opened in London, Berlin and Vienna. The London production opened at the Folly Theatre, on 28 February under the original French title but with an English libretto by H. B. Farnie and Robert Reece that closely followed the original. The production transferred to the larger Globe Theatre in August as "The Chimes of Normandy". Edward Solomon conducted; Violet Cameron and Shiel Barry starred as Germaine and Gaspard. It played for a total of 705 performances, setting a new world record for a musical theatre run, which was not overtaken until "Dorothy", ten years later. The first Berlin production opened in March 1878 at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater and the first in Vienna was in September at the Theater an der Wien.