Bellini's second most-enduring opera was still enjoying huge popularity - perhaps not so difficult to perform as Norma, although the demands of staging the final scene cannot have been easy.
It was also short enough to be followed by a more light-hearted afterpiece. On this tour the brief entertainments available were the familiar Waterman, by Dibdin, No Song, No Supper by Stephen Storace, and a little musical farce billed as The Swiss Cottage - Adolphe Adam's Le Chalet, which must have been quite heavily cut to bring it in at an acceptable length.
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