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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 ...
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.
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).
The Vincennes railway station at Place de la Bastille. In 1853, the private company "Société de Chemin de Fer Paris Strasbourg" was authorised to build a train line crossing Paris 12th arrondissement from Bastille to Verneuil l'Etang, passing through Vincennes. The project required massive construction work, including tunnels and crossings.
Place de la Bastille, the location of the Bastille, stormed on 14 July 1789; Opéra Bastille, opera house; Promenade Plantée, a 4.5-kilometre long (2.8 mi) elevated garden along the abandoned railway which led to the former Gare de La Bastille railway station. Bassin de l'Arsenal, boat basin; July Column, a monument to the revolution of 1830
Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s. His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz 's Merlin with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in Giuseppe Verdi 's Falstaff won the Grammy ...
William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell) is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend.
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