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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 ...
Opéra Bastille, the main facility of the Paris National Opera, was inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's "Grands Travaux". Designed by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott, it is located at the Place de la Bastille and houses a 2,700-seat theatre as well as smaller concert hall and a studio. [27]
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.
The unauthorised demolition of the Bastille began the day after the Bastille was taken when an entrepreneurial business man, Pierre-François Palloy, recruited a team to tear down the fortress. [13] Recovered construction materials were subsequently sold, along with various mementos of the infamous building (keys, paper weights, etc.).
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Six complete performances were given at Zurich Opera, all 5 acts on one night as Berlioz had intended in September 1990, directed by Tony Palmer. Les Troyens was staged again in 1990 for the opening of the new Opéra Bastille in Paris. It was a partial success, because the new theatre was not quite ready on opening night, which caused much ...
Gare de la Bastille, a former railway station in Paris; Opéra Bastille, an opera house in Paris; Place de la Bastille, a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood; Bastille (Grenoble), a fortress in Grenoble, France; Bastille Peak, a mountain in Nunavut, Canada; Beuzeville-la-Bastille, a commune in Basse-Normandie, France
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