La Muette de Portici

La Muette de Portici was a grand opera in five acts with music by Daniel-Esprit Auber, a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne, and choreography by Jean-Louis Aumer (see eighteenth-century volume for Aumer). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 29 February 1828 and was applauded enthusiastically by the romantic audiences of the period. It enjoyed 455 billings at the Opéra before the artists moved to their present opera house, where it had only 34 presentations…