[3] The first fully professional production was on May 13, 1995, as part of the "Great Performers at Lincoln Center" series, led by Ransom Wilson and directed by Hans Nieuwenhuis.

[4] The Texas premiere of Cabildo was performed by Houston's Opera Vista[5] on September 22, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts' Bayou Bend, conducted by Opera Vista's Artistic Director, Viswa Subbaraman and stage directed by Chuck Winkler.

In 2017 Central City Opera produced a fully stage version as part of their summer festival.

[6] Cabildo was performed at the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London in August 2019,[7] directed by Emma Jude Harris with piano trio accompaniment conducted by John Warner.

At The Cabildo, a tour guide (Barker) leads a group of tourists to the cell where the notorious pirate, Pierre Lafitte, was imprisoned during the War of 1812.

Pierre will find the cell door open for his escape, in return for the pirates' full participation in breaking the British siege and defending New Orleans.

The ghost of Valerie appears and tells of the destruction of the Falcon and her subsequent drowning by one of Lafitte's own men.