 In January 1868 Offenbach travelled to Vienna to oversee a production at the Theater an der Wien, and the opera was staged at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels the following month.A German version for production in Darmstadt was planned for 1870 but the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War put paid to that.The piece was given in the US by a children's company; a heavily adapted version was presented in Germany as "Robinsonade" in the 1930s; and the BBC broadcast an abbreviated version of the opera on several occasions in the 1930s and 1940s.