Orc Des Frivolites/Reiland - Daniel-Francois Esprit Auber: La Sir?ne

Auber earned international adulation in the late 1820s for his revolutionary grand opera La Muette de Portici and by the time he composed La Sir�ne, the success of which inspired potpourris of its melodies, he occupied a central place in French musical life. The mysterious siren of the title is part of a plot that abounds in fantastic comedy, love, betrayal, farce and festivity in the lineage of Italian popular theatre. The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote that �La Sir�ne was received with resounding bravos � The author and the composer know how to amuse us agreeably, and even to enchant us, or to dazzle us by the luminous