La Muette de Portici: Opéra en cinq actes by Auber, Delavigne, and Scribe
"La Muette de Portici: Opéra en cinq actes" by Auber, Delavigne, and Scribe is an opera composed in 1828. Set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century Naples, it tells the story of Fenella, a mute woman betrayed by her aristocratic lover, and her brother Masaniello, who leads a fishermen's uprising against Spanish rule. This groundbreaking work introduced mime as integral to opera and became the first French grand opera. Its themes of revolution
proved so powerful that a performance in Brussels allegedly helped spark the Belgian Revolution of 1830. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Composer | Auber, D. F. E. (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871 |
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| Librettist | Delavigne, Germain, 1790-1868 |
| Librettist | Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861 |
| Title | La Muette de Portici: Opéra en cinq actes |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_muette_de_Portici fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Muette_de_Portici |
| Credits | Produced by Vital Debroey, Renald Levesque and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | ML: Music: Literature of music |
| Subject | Operas -- Librettos |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 9892 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 27, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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