 He adds, "Even such pieces as "H.M.S.Pinafore" and "Die Fledermaus", vastly successful though they were in their original languages, did not have the enormous international careers of Lecocq's opéra-comique".The reviewer in "La Comédie" wrote of the original Brussels production, "It is a long time since we saw at the theatre a better piece; it is interesting, perfectly proper, and crisp."