It premiered on 24 February 1909 at the Teatro Real in Madrid in a performance conducted by the composer.

Finally, through the efforts of tenor Plácido Domingo, who starred in the new production, it was revived in Spain in 1999.

A CD of this revival, recorded live, was nominated for the 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album.

[3] The plot is based on an old legend, retold with variations in such plays as Karl Vollmöller's Das Mirakel and Maurice Maeterlinck's Soeur Beatrice, and in the films Das Mirakel (1912), Milagro de amor (1946), and The Miracle (1959).

Margarita eventually discovers that she is only one in a series of sexual conquests by Don Juan, and returns to the convent to find that her absence has not been noticed at all.