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French Grand Opera

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A summer season of works staged at the Paris Opera, 1828-65.
1: La Muette de Portici Auber's five-act opera, produced in 1828, set the pattern for a new style of French opera and sparked off the Belgian revolution of 1830. It contains a dumb heroine who ends the opera by plunging into a stream of molten lava from Mount Vesuvius. (sung in French)
JEAN LAFORGE CHORUS MONTE-CARLO PO/ THOMAS FULTON Acts 1 and 2
3.00 Julian Budden on Auber
3.10 Acts 3, 4 and 5. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Laforge
Unknown:
Julian Budden
Alphonse d'Arcos, son of the Viceroy of Naples:
John Aler (tenor)
Lorenzo, his confidant:
Alain Munier (tenor)
Elvire, a Spanish princess:
June Anderson (soprano)
Lady-in-waiting:
Martine Mahe (mezzo)
Selva, an officer of the Viceroy's guard:
Jean-Philippe Courtis
Borella, a fisherman:
Frederic Vassar (bar)
Masaniello, a fisherman from Portici:
Alfredo Kraus (tenor)
Pietro, his friend:
Jean-Philippe Lafont (bar)
Moreno, a fisherman:
Daniel Ottevaere (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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