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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...
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    Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Initially referred to as le nouvel Opéra de Paris...
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  • The Paris Opera has had many different official names during its long history, but since 1994, it has been called the Opéra National de Paris (Paris National...
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    The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was...
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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...
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    arrondissement of Paris (Luxembourg) 7th arrondissement of Paris (Palais-Bourbon) 8th arrondissement of Paris (Élysée) 9th arrondissement of Paris (Opéra) 10th arrondissement...
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    Opéra (French: [ɔpeʁa] ) is a station on Lines 3, 7 and 8 of the Paris Métro. It is named after the nearby Opéra Garnier. Located at the end of the Avenue...
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  • term opéra comique in favor of more precise labels. Opéra comique began in the early eighteenth century in the theatres of the two annual Paris fairs...
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    Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris is a library and museum of the Paris Opera and is located in the 9th arrondissement at 8 rue Scribe, Paris, France...
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    equivalent grand opéra, pronounced [ɡʁɑ̃t‿ɔpeʁa]) to certain productions of the Paris Opéra from the late 1820s to around 1860; 'grand opéra' has sometimes...
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  • a Russian princess from 1905, is training to be a ballerina at the Opéra de Paris and is the school's top student. Her boyfriend Henri is unaware that...
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    related to Opéra de Nice. Opéra de Nice official website Pâris, Alain. Opéra de Nice. In: Dictionnaire des interprètes. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995...
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    Palais Garnier (home to the Paris Opera), on the Place de l'Opéra, together with the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel's Café de la Paix, as well as Boulevard...
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    costumes for the opera, Renaissance – a 27-minute ballet with 22 dancers, which was choreographed by Sébastien Bertaud and opened at Opéra de Paris on 13 June...
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  • Fille de marbre is a ballet-pantomime in 2 acts by Arthur Saint-Léon, with music by Cesare Pugni, premiered on 20 October 1847 at the Opéra de Paris. The...
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    Roissybus offers non-stop express service between Opéra station of the Paris Métro and Charles de Gaulle airport, making stops at all terminals (except...
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    the Palais Garnier, the primary opera house of Paris (until the opening of the Opéra Bastille in 1989). The Avenue de l'Opéra was an important thoroughfare...
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    in the Bois de Boulogne. The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the...
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    of Paris. Musée Mendjisky, Robert Mallet-Stevens, (1932) 15th arrondissement of Paris Opéra Bastille, Carlos Ott (1989), 11th arrondissement of Paris Palais...
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    discontented with operatic life in Paris. In the 1850s, two new theatres attempted to break the monopoly of the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique on the performance...
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  • The following list gives number of performances of grand opera at the Paris Opera from premiere to 1962, (as given by Stéphane Wolff, Albert Soubies and...
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  • list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris, first at...
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    The Royal Opera of Versailles (French: Opéra royal de Versailles) is the main theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Ange-Jacques...
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    Karthala, Paris, 2002, ISBN 9782865375844 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. Opéra National de Bordeaux Ballet National de Bordeaux...
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    de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de...
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  • Opéra-ballet (French: [ɔ.pe.ʁa.ba.lɛ]; plural: opéras-ballets) is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century...
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    The Opéra de Monte-Carlo is an opera house which is part of the Monte Carlo Casino located in the Principality of Monaco. With the lack of cultural diversions...
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    The Firebird (redirect from L'Oiseau de feu)
    and curse it possesses for its owner. It was first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910 and was an immediate success, catapulting Stravinsky...
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    to Opéra and then Line 3 to Saint-Lazare, or take RER E from Magenta (connected to Gare du Nord). Travelling to points of interest Disneyland Paris: Take...
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    centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses the city's most dense concentration of business activities. The arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock...
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