 The revival of "Bianca e Gernando", with the title reverting to the original one proposed for the opera, came about after the success of "Il pirata" in Milan in October 1827.A commission came from Genoa in early 1828, too late for Bellini to write anything new.However, he did re-arrange the music to suit the singers' voices and in addition (as Galatopoulos states), Romani took on the re-construction of the libretto with the result that "out of the whole of Bianca, the only pieces entirely unchanged are the big duet and the romanza; everything else is altered, and about half of it is new".