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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.
The Paris Opera (French: Opéra de Paris [ɔpeʁa 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.
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.
The opera houses he has worked in include Opera Garnier and Opera Bastille in Paris, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, La Scala in Milan, De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Bregenz Festival, Opera North in Leeds, and London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
She made her debut with the Paris Opera portraying the Queen of the Night at the Opéra Bastille in performances in March. [22] On 11 April 2016, together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris conducted by Christopher Franklin and the choir Les Cris de Paris, [23] she performed in a concert version of La sonnambula at the Théâtre des Champs ...
Since then, the opera was presented in staged productions by the RuhrTriennale at the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum (2003, also shown in the Madrid Arena in Spain in 2011), by the Opéra National de Paris at the Opéra Bastille (2004), by the Muziektheater in Amsterdam (2008), by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (2011, directed by Hermann Nitsch ...
It was the first work Petit created for the Paris Opera Ballet, which he had left 20 years earlier. [ 1 ] This ballet was very successful and continues to be performed to the present, including a series of performances at the Opéra national de Paris at the end of the 2013–2014 season, at the Opera Bastille and a production in 2013 at the ...