La Mule de Pédro

La Mule de Pédro was an opera in two acts with a score by Victor Massé and a libretto by Philippe-François Dumanoir. It had its world premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 6 March 1863. The opera is set in a Spanish village, where acrobats are performing, merchants are selling their wares, and a chorus is urging everybody to share in the festival of Villanova. A group of picadors announce a corrida starring the famous José, but Pédro explains that he cannot go to the bullring because he…