Maskarade received a major international revival in 2005 in a new production by David Pountney which was performed at the Bregenz Festival in August of that year and travelled to the Royal Opera House the following month for its first performance by the company.
It was performed in the US again in 2014, when it had its Chicago premiere on 18 January at the Vittum Theater performed by the Vox3 Collective. The first reported New York performance was by the Bronx Opera Company in 1983. Paul Opera in Minnesota with conductor Igor Buketoff, Mary Beth Peil as Leonora, and Clinton Ware as Leander. The opera did not premiere in the United States until 1972 when it was performed by the St. In 2006, Denmark's Ministry of Culture named it one of Denmark's twelve greatest musical works. Now considered to be Denmark's national opera, it has enjoyed lasting success in the country, attributable to its many strophic songs, its dances and its underlying "old Copenhagen" atmosphere. Announcement of plans to turn Holberg's classical comedy into an opera buffa had met with dismay in Danish literary circles, but the opera was immediately popular, more so than the play itself.
Reviews in the press were however mixed, the consensus being that the first act was the best, the second was rather weak and the third lacked theatrical clarity although the music was brilliant.
It was a resounding success from the start with an exceptional run of 25 performances over its first four months. The world premiere of Maskarade took place at Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen on 11 November 1906.
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