 Planché went along with Samuel's requests, resulting in immediate success and fame despite his doubts.It wasn't until the summer of 1829 (nine years later) when Planché revived "The Vampire" with his “own ideas of propriety” again at the Lyceum by the same Samuel Arnold who produced it in 1820.The French melodrama was converted into an opera for the German stage, in which Planché “wrote the libretto, laid the scene of action in Hungary, where the superstition exists to this day, and in many other respects improved upon my earlier version.” He points out specifically that “the opera was extremely well sung, and the costumes novel as well as correct.”


The play begins in the Cave of Fingal on the Island of Staffa, in Scotland.