Drigo's score spawned the popular salon repertory piece known as the Serenade, which the composer later re-wrote as a song called Nuttorno d'amore for Beniamino Gigli.
This program, which runs on Windows is called Arlequin, and is freely available on Excoffier's website.
Arlequin Mahomet was performed as the second play in a series consisting of La Foire de Guibray and Le Tombeau de Nostradamus.
As an actor, Damien Luce studied at the Alain De Bock drama studio, where he worked on authors such as Racine (Pyrrhus and Oreste in Andromaque), Antiochus in Bérénice), Claudel (Mesa in Le Partage de midi), Marivaux (Arlequin in Arlequin poli par l’amour), Anouilh (The King in Becket) Romains (Knock), Albee (George in Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf ?), Ribes (George in Les Cent Pas).
She debuted at the Stenborg Theatre 2 April 1789, in a so-called Harlequinade, Arlequin Favirot-sultaninna (The favourite sultaness of Harlequin) at the age of nineteen.