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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 ...
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The Paris Opera (French: Opéra de Paris, IPA: [opeʁa 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.
The Avenue de l'Opéra (French pronunciation: [avny də lɔpeʁa]) was created from 1864 to 1879 as part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris.It is situated in the center of the city, running northwest from the Louvre to the Palais Garnier, the primary opera house of Paris (until the opening of the Opéra Bastille in 1989).
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.
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.
Opéra Bastille, Paris . Carlos Adolfo Ott (born October 16, 1946) is a Uruguayan-Canadian [1] [2] architect.He became famous when he won the international design competition in 1983 for the construction of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, which was inaugurated on July 14, 1989 (bicentennial of the French Revolution).
More recent revivals have been produced at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1978 directed by Peter Ustinov, [8] at the Opéra de Lyon in 1988 (then recorded by EMI), [1] 1992 at Amsterdam Opera and 1993 at the Opéra Bastille (produced by Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff), and then at the Opéra-Comique in 2011. [9]