Daniel Auber
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was a French Romantic composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
Portrait of Daniel Auber, 1827, by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Auber's father, c. 1806
Auber, c. 1830
Le Cheval de bronze, 1835
La muette de Portici
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La muette de Portici, also called Masaniello in some versions, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe.
Daniel Auber
…critical successes. He is mostly associated with opéra-comique and composed 35 works in that genre. With Scribe he wrote the first French grand opera, La Muette de Portici (The Dumb Woman of Portici) in 1828, which paved the way for the large-scale works of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Auber held two important official musical…
Anna Pavlova in the title role in a silent film based on the opera
The Théâtre de la Monnaie (Muntschouwburg) where the performance of 25 August 1830 sparked riots leading to the Belgian Revolution
Act 4, scene 2 of the original production
La muette de Portici, the eruption of the volcano, 1893 production