The composer Daniel Auber gives the common people a voice, in opera at least, in this year, when he writes his popular opera La Muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici).

Familiarly known as Masaniello after its hero, it is the first opera to treat the aspirations of common people in a heroic style.

Rossini, well compensated as chief composer to the king and inspector-general of singing in France and comfortably ensconced in Paris, now produces his first original opera, le Comte Ory (Count Ory), a lively, original opera comique.