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La Muette de Portici

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Opera in five acts
Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE and GERMAIN DELAVIGNE Music by Auber
(sung in French): Records
Produced in 1828, Auber's finest grand opera has further claims to fame: it sparked off the Belgian revolution of 1830, and it contains a dumb heroine who ends the opera by plunging into a stream of molten lava from Mount Vesuvius.
JEAN LAFORGE CHORUS
MONTE CARLO PO/THOMAS FULTON

Contributors

Libretto by:
Eugène Scribe
Libretto by:
Germain Delavigne
Music by:
Daniel Auber
Conductor:
Thomas Fulton
Alphonse d'Arcos, son of the Viceroy of Naples:
John Aler (tenor)
Lorenzo, his confidant:
Alain Munier (tenor)
Elvire, a Spanish princess betrothed to Alphonse:
June Anderson (soprano)
Lady-in-waiting:
Martine Mahé (mezzo-Soprano)
Femella, a dumb girl, Masaniello's sister:
(silent role)
Selva, an officer of the Viceroy's guard:
Jean-Philippe Courtis (bass)
Borella, a fisherman:
Frédéric Vassar (baritone)
Masaniello, a fisherman from Portici:
Alfredo Kraus (tenor)
Pietro, his friend:
Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)
Moreno, a fisherman:
Daniel Ottevaere (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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