Paris Opéra

Paris Opéra
or Opéra Garnier also Théâtre Nationale de L'Opéra

Opera house in Paris designed by Charles Garnier (1825–98).

The extraordinarily lavish building, considered one of the masterpieces of the Second Empire (Beaux-Arts style), was begun in 1861 and opened in 1875. The floor plan is as elaborate as the exterior. The interior features generous circulation space, including a grand staircase and numerous richly decorated galleries, foyers, and corridors. The designation also applies to the opera company in Paris that for more than two centuries was the chief performer of serious operas and musical dramas in the French language. One of the most venerable operatic institutions in the world, it occupied Garnier's building until 1990.

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▪ French opera company
formally  National Academy of Music , French  Académie Nationale de Musique 

      opera company in Paris that for more than two centuries was the chief performer of serious operas and musical dramas in the French language. It is one of the most venerable operatic institutions in the world.

      The Paris Opéra was established as the Royal Academy of Music (Académie Royale de Musique) under a patent granted by Louis XIV in 1669. The company's first performance was Pomone (1671), a pastoral by the composer Robert Cambert and the poet Pierre Perrin. In 1672 the Royal Academy of Dance was amalgamated with the Royal Academy of Music.

      In the 17th and 18th centuries the Paris Opéra's productions were dominated by a series of operatic giants. Jean-Baptiste Lully (Lully, Jean-Baptiste), who profoundly influenced the development of French opera, ruled the Opéra from 1672 until his death in 1687. In 1733 Jean-Philippe Rameau (Rameau, Jean-Philippe), Lully's equal in the history of French opera, began his 30 years as the leading operatic figure in France with Hippolyte et Aricie. Christoph Gluck, the leader of the movement for operatic reform, was associated with the Opéra from 1773 to 1779.

      The French Revolution of 1789 prompted the Paris Opéra to produce a series of operas on revolutionary subjects. In the middle and late 19th century, grand opera, exemplified in the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer, flourished in the company's repertory. The Opéra underwent a decline in the 20th century, and attempts to rejuvenate it began at mid-century. Its administration was joined with that of the Opéra-Comique, which traditionally stages works with spoken dialogue. From 1875 to 1990 the Paris Opéra was housed in the Théâtre Nationale de l'Opéra, an architectural landmark that is better known simply as the Opéra. In the latter year the company occupied its new home in the Opéra de la Bastille building.

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