Performances are rare. There was a production at the John Lewis Theatre in London on 10 April 1962, which claimed to be the first in England,Daily Telegraph, 11 April 1962. and a concert performance at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1976. The American première, given by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, took place on 6 June 1979, and in June 1997 a concert performance was given as part of the Vienna Festival. In January 1998, seven fully staged performances in a new production conducted by Geoffrey Moull were given by the Bielefeld Opera in Germany. In February 1998, three performances in English were given in a fully staged production by Opera Omnibus in Haslemere, England. A concert performance of Zychowicz's edition of the opera was conducted by Leon Botstein at the Bard Music Festival in Fall 2002. In October 2003, there were six performances of a new production at the Wexford Festival. In January 2010, the Bronx Opera gave the New York staged the premiere of an English-language version of the work. In March 2011, there were four performances by UCOpera at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London. In 2013 it was performed by Moscow Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theatre, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
