Verdi had contacted his publisher, Giovanni Ricordi, regarding an Italian version. He did not find a translator while in Paris, but in 1850, the French text was translated into Italian by Calisto Bassi and performed as Gerusalemme at La Scala, Milan on 26 December 1850. However, "it failed to supersede I Lombardi in the affections of Italian audiences" and certainly, as Parker comments, while overall being superior to Lombardi in various ways, "it failed to establish itself in either the French or the Italian repertory". However, the opera was given in Turin in 1850 and between 1854 and 1865, in Venice, Verona and Rome (twice). The US premiere was presented at the Théâtre d'Orleans in New Orleans on 24 January 1850. 20th century and beyond In Italy, conductor Gianandrea Gavazzeni staged the opera in Italian at La Fenice in Venice in 1963. Two years later, in May 1965, when the La Fenice company were in Munich, they gave a performance in Italian under Ettore Gracis, the Gaston being sung by Giacomo Aragall, the Count by Renato Bruson, Ruggero by Ruggero Raimondi, and Elena by Leyla Gencer. 1975 saw an Italian radio/television (RAI) production of a concert version of the opera in French with Katia Ricciarelli and José Carreras. Given in the original French, the opera was staged by the Opéra in Paris in March/April 1984 under Donato Renzetti with Alain Fondary singing the role of the Count. The Teatro Regio in Parma presented the opera (in French) in 1986 with Ricciarelli and Cesare Siepi. It was broadcast in French in Britain under Edward Downes with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on 11 May 1986, and June Anderson was featured in the cast as Hélène. In the 1990s, Jérusalem appeared under Zubin Mehta, also in French, at the Vienna State Opera with a cast including José Carreras (as Gaston) and Samuel Ramey (as Roger). It took over 140 years for the opera to be given its UK premiere by Opera North on 31 March 1990 at the Grand Theatre in Leeds. The Opera Orchestra of New York presented a concert performance in February 1998. In 1998 Fabio Luisi recorded the work in the studio in Geneva with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Marcello Giordani sang Gaston, Philippe Rouillon (the Count), and Marina Mescheriakova (Hélène). In November/December 2000 it was performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa using an arrangement of