Gluck revised the work to a versified adaptation by Pierre-Louis Moline of the original libretto, to which was also added (for Lubin) the ariette "Près de l'objet qui m'inflamme", parodied from Gluck's earlier opera Le cadi dupé. The revised version was first performed on 27 February 1775 as L'arbre enchanté, at the Palace of Versailles.[4][5]
The story is slightly varied in Chaucer's tale of May and Januarie ("The Merchant's Tale"), where it is instead the pair of lovers who climb the tree.
The diarist Karl von Zinzendorf related that Gluck sang the part of an ailing singer from the wings in 1761.[3]
^Vadé's work was an early form of opéra comique known as comédie en vaudeville. Although he may have written some of the music for the airs, most were probably sung to well known popular tunes known as vaudevilles (Sadler 1992, p. 883).