 The company also staged "Les Huguenots", "Faust", "Fidelio", "Magic Flute", "William Tell" and "Lohengrin".Meanwhile, the company also rehearsed, and then presented, Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine", in which Campanini played Vasco da Gama opposite Hauk and Galassi; and in the spring 1882 "Ernani", "Don Giovanni" and "Les Huguenots" were produced at the New York Academy of Music.On his return to England, Campanini found that the 1882 season was being disrupted by negotiations over the "Royal Italian Opera Company, Covent Garden, Ltd"—formed to seek the lease of the new Metropolitan Opera House, New York, which was then being built.