Louis Guéymard
in Auber's La muette de Portici

First performed by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier on 29 February 1828, La muette de Portici [English: The Dumb Girl of Portici] is a five-act opera by Daniel Auber with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe. Its plot is loosely based on the historical uprising led by the fisherman Masaniello against Spanish rule in Naples in 1647. 

One particular performance of the opera, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 25 August 1830, is often linked to the Belgian Revolution of 1830.

The character of Fenella, the opera's eponymous dumb girl, was borrowed from Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak, which features a deaf and dumb dwarf of the same name. Marie Taglioni and Fanny Elssler are among the famous dancers who have taken the part.