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  2. Opéra Bastille - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Grands Projets of François Mitterrand - Wikipedia

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    The Grands Projets of François Mitterrand (variants: Grands Travaux [ɡʁɑ̃ tʁavo] or Grands Projets Culturels [ɡʁɑ̃ pʁɔʒɛ kyltyʁɛl]; officially: Grandes Opérations d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme [ɡʁɑ̃dz‿ɔpeʁasjɔ̃ daʁʃitɛktyʁ e dyʁbanism]) was an architectural programme to provide modern monuments in Paris, the city of monuments, symbolising France's role in art ...

  4. Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, the orchestra played 1 to 2 premieres and 30 productions per season, under the auspices of the Paris Opera. The orchestra played from 1870 onwards in the Palais Garnier, the old Opera, and since its opening in 1989 in the Opéra Bastille, both locations of the Paris Opera. In 2011 there were 174 musicians in the orchestra.

  5. Palais Garnier - Wikipedia

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    It was the primary theatre of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, opened at the Place de la Bastille. [7] The company now uses the Palais Garnier mainly for ballet. The theatre has been a monument historique of France since 1923.

  6. Into the Little Hill - Wikipedia

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    Opéra Bastille, Paris Into the Little Hill is a 2006 chamber opera by British composer George Benjamin . Described by the composer as a "lyric tale in two parts", the libretto is by playwright Martin Crimp and it is Benjamin's first stage work. [ 1 ]

  7. Adriana Mater - Wikipedia

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    Adriana Mater is the second opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, with a libretto in French by her frequent collaborator, Amin Maalouf. The Opéra National de Paris and the Finnish National Opera jointly commissioned the opera. It received its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille on 3 April 2006 in a production directed by Peter Sellars.

  8. List of tourist attractions in Paris - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Palais - a large glass exhibition hall built for the 1900 Paris Exhibition; Les Invalides - complex containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France; The Palais Garnier - Paris's central opera house, built in the later Second Empire period; The Panthéon - church and tomb of a number of France's most famed ...

  9. Raphaëlle Farman - Wikipedia

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    Raphaëlle Farman (born Paris) is a French operatic soprano. Farman completed a master's degree in law, and later studied singing at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris and at the Lyric School of the Opéra Bastille. She graduated in 1992.