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2 unusual facts about Daniel Auber


Daniel Auber

The libretto was to be used twice more, first by Saverio Mercadante for Il reggente, with the action transferred to Scotland, and, next by Giuseppe Verdi, as Un ballo in maschera.

Lyric Opera of Los Angeles

LOLA (as it is also known) has since put on several premiere productions including Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr and Daniel Auber's Manon Lescaut.


Alexis Dupont

She was the sister of another ballerina, Lise Noblet, who danced the title part in Auber's La muette de Portici at its premiere, in which her brother-in-law Dupont also created a singing role.

Ferdinand Hérold

Hérold collaborated with Daniel Auber on Vendôme en Espagne (1823) which capitalized on the fad for Spanish atmosphere, following the French victory at Trocadero in Spain.

Giacomo Roppa

He was committed there through 1837, singing such roles as Alamiro in Donizetti's Belisario, Don Pedro in Giuseppe Persiani's Inês de Castro, Edgardo in Donizaetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Lorenzo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi He made his debut at La Scala in 1838 as Alphonse in Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici, remaining there through 1839.

Glossary of ballet

Two famous examples are the Grand Pas created by Marius Petipa in 1881 for his revival of Joseph Mazilier's ballet Paquita, known today as the Paquita Grand Pas Classique, and the one just called Grand pas classique, choreographed by Victor Gsovsky with music by Daniel Auber, derived from the opera-ballet Le Dieu et La Bayadere.

Laura Joyce Bell

Bell made her first notable appearance in New York in the spring of 1872 at Niblo's Garden performing in the “spectacle pantomime” Azeal, possibly based on the earlier musical by Daniel Auber, and afterward made a hit in the title role of the Edward E. Rice and J. Cheever Goodwin extravaganza, Evangeline, first played at the old Boston Globe Theatre on June 7, 1875 and reprised the following season at the Boston Museum.

Lise Noblet

She created the title role of Fenella in the opera La muette de Portici by Daniel Auber.

Opéra-National

The prologue, a pastiche with music by Adam, Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy, and Michele Carafa, and a libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, was highly topical, with references to the new railway from Paris to Tours (a technical wonder of the time) and the Boulevard du Crime (nickname of the Boulevard du Temple, for the numerous melodramas about sensational crimes performed in many of the theatres located there).

Thérésa Tallien

The couple invited musicians such as Daniel Auber, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Luigi Cherubini, Charles de Bériot and Maria Malibran to Paris and later to Chimay, where Thérésa held a little court.


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