PARIS — “La Muette de Portici,” an opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, changed the course of history in more ways than one. Its 1828 premiere in Paris initiated a new and distinctly French operatic genre known as grand opera, with historical subjects drawn from modern Europe and scenic effects that took stage spectacle, always dear to the French, to dazzling heights.
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