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In a theatre, a box, loge, [1] or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event. The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above
The Salle Le Peletier, home of the Paris Opera during the middle of the 19th century. French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language.It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
The Italian word opera means "work", both in the sense of the labor done and the result produced. The Italian word in turn derives from the Latin opera.Opera is also the Latin plural of opus, with the same root, but the word opera was a singular Latin noun in its own right, and according to Lewis and Short, in Latin "opus is used mostly of the mechanical activity of work, as that of animals ...
The Paris Opera (French: Opéra de Paris [ɔpeʁa də paʁi] ⓘ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra, and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the Académie Royale de Musique, but continued to be known more simply as the Opéra.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski; Català
Les arts florissants (opera) Arvire et Évélina; Ascanio; Astarté (opera) Astrée (Collasse) L'attaque du moulin; Atys (Lully) Atys (Piccinni) Au monde; L'Aube rouge (opera) Aucassin et Nicolette (Grétry opera) Aucassin et Nicolette (Le Flem opera) Les aventures du roi Pausole
The Opéra Bastille (French: [ɔpeʁa bastij] ⓘ, "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux, it became the main facility of the Paris National Opera, France's principal opera company, alongside the older Palais Garnier; most opera performances are shown at the ...
The association was founded in 1964 as the Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Municipaux de France (RTLMF), changed its name to the Réunion des Théâtre Lyriques de France (RTLF) in 1991, finally getting its current name of the Réunion des Opéras de France (ROF) in 2003. [2]