History hasn't been kind to La Muette de Portici. Premiered in Paris in 1828, Auber's opera deals with a 17th-century Neapolitan uprising against Spanish rule, led by the fisherman Masaniello, whose ...

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Like many innovators‚ Auber has been somewhat forgotten‚ resting in the shade of his successors.