Hynninen as the Bailiff, Peter Lindroos as the Lover, and Pia-Gunn Anckar as the Chatelaine. The opera, performed as a concert item rather than staged, was broadcast live over Finnish radio. According to Jalas, a proper historical contextualization of The Maiden in the Tower was important to Sibelius: he instructed that it should only be performed if accompanied by a presentation recounting its background, a wish that the musicologist and Sibelius biographer Erik Tawaststjerna's lecture—printed in the program and given by him over the radio—fulfilled. Moreover, to resurrect the opera, Jalas commissioned new fair copies of the score, using Sibelius's autograph manuscript and the original orchestral parts by copyist Ernst Röllig. In 1983, Edition Wilhelm Hansen published Jalas's sheet music; an updated edition arrived in 2014. In 2019, the musicologist and conductor deciphered the markings Sibelius had written in blue pencil over the opera's original sheet music. Collectively, they constituted a hidden concert overture lasting about 12 minutes. Sibelius arranged the piece in 1900 for concerts in Turku. He conducted the for its premiere at the on 7 April; also on the program was the five-movement King Christian II Suite (Op. 27), excerpts from the Music for the Press Celebrations Days (JS 137), and The Song of the Athenians (Op. 31/3). The next day, Sibelius repeated this program at the Old Academy Building. Finally, on 10 April at the Fire Brigade Hall, conducted a third performance of the Concert Overture. The critical reviews were brief but positive. and Åbo Underrättelser observed that the Concert Overture was received with, respectively, "great pleasure" and "sympathetic applause". wrote that the Overture numbered among "Sibelius’s minor works" despite its "originality and richness of ... invention". Before Hannikainen's research, scholars had assumed that Sibelius had conducted in Turku the opera's original overture, despite the fact that it would have made an ineffective concert piece due to its short duration and inconclusive ending. In 2019, Fennica Gehrman published as the Concert Overture, reconstructed and edited by Hannikainen. The piece received its world premiere on 23 May 2021, with Hannikainen conducting the chamber orchestra Avanti! at the Finnish House of Nobility. Structurally, the piece incorporates elements from five of the opera's nine numbers, ordered as follows: the Overture (bars 1–238 in the Concert Overture), Scene 4 (bars 239–349), Scene 6 (bars 350–443), Scene 7 (bars 444–500), and Scene 8 (bars 501–639). Of these five numbers, all but