The Mute of Portici, libretto reading #14
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Story in brief

Naples, 1638
The Neapolitan people suffer under the tyranny of the Spanish viceroy.
When the fisherman Masaniello learns how his sister Fenella was first seduced and then coldly dumped by ne Spaniard, the measure is full. Time to throw off the Spanish yoke for good.

But what if love turns out to be stronger than jealousy and revenge?
What if the heart wins out over rational principles?
What if a justifiable social struggle degenerates into blind and all-consuming fanaticism?

Weather
When the duet 'Amour sacré de la patrie' came to the ears of the public at the Monnaie Theatre on 25 August 1830, they spontaneously unleashed the revolt against King William I that same evening that would go down in history as the Belgian Revolution.

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