as Jean, Lionel Lhote as Boniface, and Fernand Bernadi as the Prior, in a production by Jean-Louis Pichon. Outside France the opera was seen at the Théâtre Municipal (Avenue Bourguibain) in Tunis in 1912. After its local premiere in 1904 it was regularly revived at La Monnaie (Bruxelles) up to November 1956, where the lead role was taken Jean Marcor in his stage debut, with Jean Laffont as Boniface and Germain Ghislain the Abbot. A production of Le Jongleur de Notre Dame in Boston in 1961 by the New England Opera Theatre featured "singer-actor-juggler-dancer" Tommy Rall; Spiro Malas was Boniface. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducted the opera at Wexford in 1984, with Patrick Power, Sergei Leiferkus and Christian du Plessis. The first performances at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, were in April 2000, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti with Cecilia Gasdia and Massimo Giordano sharing the title role, and Massimiliano Gagliardo as Boniface and Nicolai Ghiaurov as Le Prieur. In Monte-Carlo in May 1978 the complete opera was recorded in stereo for the first time, and this recording, with the tenor Alain Vanzo as Jean and Jules Bastin as Boniface, was reissued on compact disc in 2003, followed by another CD containing a 1974 radio performance of the work, again with Vanzo. Roles Synopsis Place: France Time: Medieval period Act 1, Place de Cluny There is singing and dancing in front of the monastery; Jean, a juggler, wants to earn money entertaining passers-by. Rejecting his clumsy tricks, they demand a profane song 'Halleluiah to wine'. He resists at first but then sings it. The Prior appears and takes Jean to task but seeing that Jean is filled with remorse, the Prior asks him to join the monks, to save his soul and body. Act 2, the cloisters Inside the monastery the monks undertake their various duties. Jean sees that although they honour the Virgin with beautiful Latin prayers, he is unable to offer her any thing. The other monks quarrel as they offer to take him as a pupil. Befriended by the monastery's cook, Boniface sings him the legend of the which humbly opened its branches to shelter the Infant Jesus as He slept. When Jean sees that the other monks are offering lavish and beautiful gifts to the newly completed statue of the Virgin Mary, he, having no real gift, resolves to do what he can do best. Act 3, in