 Some of these were led by the tenor Elliot Galer (the founder, in 1877, of the Royal Opera House in Leicester), who produced Lutz's opera "Zaida, or, The Pearl of Granada" (with a libretto by Oliver Summers) in 1859 in Liverpool.In the 1850s and 1860s he shared the concert podium at classical concerts with Julius Benedict both in the provinces and at St. James's Hall in London.In 1859, in Derby, England, Lutz played the piano for a series of ten "Concerts for the People" at the Temperance Hall.