Glasgow Grand showed astonishing enterprise in this season, staging not just this Scottish rarity, but also Boito's epic Mefistofele.
Neither work had been seen in Scotland for some years, nor have they reached the professional stage since, though MacCunn's adaptation of Scott has occasionally been revived by amateur groups. Did anyone ever suggest to Peter Ebert in later years that Jeanie should be tried out by Scottish Opera - and how would he have reacted?
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