Gounod's last successful opera was "Roméo et Juliette" (1867). Gustav Kobbé wrote five decades later that the work had always been more highly regarded in France than elsewhere. He said that it had never been popular in England except as a vehicle for Adelina Patti and then Nellie Melba, and that in New York it had only featured regularly at the Metropolitan Opera when it was under the control of Maurice Grau in the late 19th-century. Some reviewers thought it inappropriate that Juliet was allotted a waltz song ("Je veux vivre, dans ce rêve"), but Romeo's "Ah! levè-toi, soleil" was judged one of Gounod's finest tenor arias. Although never as popular as "Faust", "Roméo et Juliette" continues to hold the stage internationally. Gounod had no further success with new operas. His three attempts, "Cinq-Mars" (1877), "Polyeucte" (1888), and "Le Tribut de Zamora" (1881), were all taken off after brief runs, and have seldom been seen since.