[1] Many writers have reserved severe criticism for the librettists for their stock devices and improbable events, while praising Bizet's advance on his earlier operas in construction of set pieces and his striking melodic and instrumental ideas.

Although commissioned by Léon Carvalho in 1866 and completed by Bizet by the end of that year (with the soprano lead intended for Christine Nilsson), the dress rehearsal took place in September 1867 and the first performance three months later.

[3] La jolie fille de Perth was performed in Brussels in 1868 and Geneva in 1885; in German it was given in Weimar and Vienna in 1883, and in English in Manchester and London in 1917.

Coming to his senses, Ralph sends Smith after the litter; when the real Catherine deigns to reply to her lover's serenade he is gone.

The Duke tells his friends that his latest conquest will shortly arrive and a masked lady appears, but will only unmask for him.

Alone together, Mab removes her domino, then flees, leaving her lover only Catherine's enamelled rose she had been wearing on her bodice.

2nd tableau – the main square in Perth Mab comes to let Catherine know that the Duke intervened to prevent the duel between Smith and Ralph.

Catherine regains herself, swoons in the arms of Smith, and revives believing that it was all a dream, and all prepare for a joyous St Valentine's Day.

At the beginning of the Soviet time loop movie Mirror for a Hero (1988), there is the Russian version of Smith's Sérénade sung by Gennady Pishchayev.