The rehearsals were tedious. Meyerbeer wanted Faure and Madame Carvalho in the leading roles but one was at the Opera-Comique and the other at her own house, the Theatre-Lyrique. The work went back and forth from the Place Favart to the Place du Chatelet. But the author"s hesitancy was at bottom only a pretext. What he wanted was to secure a postponement of Limnander"s opera _Les Blancs et les Bleus_. The action of this work and of _Dinorah_, as well, took place in Brittany. In the hope of being Meyerbeer"s choice, both theatres turned poor Limnander away. Finally, _Dinorah_ fell to the Opera-Comique. After long hard work, which the author demanded, Madame Cabel and MM. Faure and Sainte-Foix gave a perfect performance.