 Another source was Alexandre Duval's comedy "Le menuisier de Livonie, ou Les illustres voyageurs" (1805).Donizetti's "Il falegname di Livonia" was premiered on 26 December 1819 at the opening of the 1819-1820 Carnival season at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.It was the fourth of Donizetti’s operas to be performed during his lifetime and the first to achieve "more than one production".