Feramors

The story is based on Lalla Rookh by the Irish poet Thomas Moore.

The opera was premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden on 24 February 1863,[1] and had subsequent stagings in Vienna (1872), Milan (1874), Berlin (1879), and Danzig (1880).

[2] The reason for its late appearance on the Russian stage was competition from an opéra-comique on the same subject by Félicien David.

at the Royal Opera house at Berlin, the principal rôles being taken by Herr Niemann and Madame Mallinger; in consequence, however, of the latter having refused to sing certain portions of her part, the composer abstained from personally conducting his work.

There are a number of recordings of the ballet music from the opera, which includes a 'Torch Dance' and a 'Dance of Bayaderes', both written in the composer's style of exotic orientalism.