Libretto by Scribe and Delavigne.

An excerpt for voices and piano: 6 p. at end.

On cover: Max Rabinoff - Managing Director & Season: 1915 228}01916.

From 1914 to 1917 Max Rabninoff was the managing director of the Boston Opera Company.

La muette de Portici (The Dumb Girl of Portici, or The Mute Girl of Portici) originally called Masaniello, ou La muette de Portici, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe. The work has an important place in musical history, as it is generally regarded as the earliest French grand opera. The opera was first given at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 29 February 1828. La muette was revived in Paris immediately after the French July Revolution of 1830. Later, at a performance of this opera at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels on 25 August 1830, a riot broke out during the patriotic and revolutionary duet "Amour sacré de la patrie" that became the signal for the Belgian Revolution, which led to Belgian independence.

The opera is loosely based on the historical uprising of Masaniello against Spanish rule in Naples in 1647. The story happens in 1647 in the Kingdom of Naples that at that time was under Spanish rule. The story revolves around the fishermen revolts, lead by Tomaso Aniello (a.k.a. Masaniello) in the village of Portici, that resulted in a major riot in which the rebels took the Castle Nuovo and forced the Spanish rulers to flee.

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