Eugène Scribe
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Augustin Eugène Scribe was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays", a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most suc
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Le Comte Ory, 1828
Les Diamants de la couronne, 1851
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.
Eugène Scribe
…he was closely associated with the composer Daniel Auber for whom he wrote or co-wrote 39 librettos, among them that for the first French grand opera, La Muette de Portici (1828). His second most frequent musical partner was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who took grand opera further and made it a dominant feature of French 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