Le diable amoureux (1840) – choreography by Joseph Mazilier music by Napoléon Henri Reber and François Benoist.La fille du Danube (1836) – choreography by Filippo Taglioni music by Adolphe Adam.La Sylphide (1832) – choreography by Filippo Taglioni music by Jean Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer.La fille mal gardée (1828) – choreography by Jean-Pierre Aumer music by Ferdinand Hérold.Faust (Paris Opera Version) (1869) – Charles Gounod.La reine de Saba (1862) – Charles Gounod.Tannhäuser (Paris Version) (1861) – Richard Wagner.Les vêpres siciliennes (1855) – Giuseppe Verdi.La nonne sanglante (1854) – Charles Gounod.Marie Stuart (1844) – Louis Niedermeyer.Dom Sebastien (1843) – Gaetano Donizetti.La reine de Chypre (1841) – Fromental Halévy.Benvenuto Cellini (1838) – Hector Berlioz.Guido et Ginevra (1838) – Fromental Halévy.Les Huguenots (1836) – Giacomo Meyerbeer.Robert le diable (1831) – Giacomo Meyerbeer.Guillaume Tell (1829) – Gioacchino Rossini.Le comte Ory (1828) – Gioacchino Rossini.La muette de Portici (1828) – Daniel Auber.Moïse et Pharaon (1827) – Gioacchino Rossini.Le siège de Corinthe (1826) – Gioacchino Rossini.Among the great ballerinas to grace the stage of the Opéra during this time were Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Carolina Rosati, Fanny Elssler, Lucile Grahn, and Fanny Cerrito. The stage and orchestra pit were able to be removed in order to transform the auditorium into a massive hall which could accommodate large balls and other festivities.Īlong with the Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the Salle Le Peletier played host to the heyday of the romantic ballet, with such Balletmasters as Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-Léon, Filippo Taglioni, Joseph Mazilier, Jean Coralli, and Paul Taglioni staging many masterworks for the Paris Opera Ballet. On 6 February 1822 gas was used for the first time in order to light the stage effects in Nicolas Isouard's opera Aladin ou La Lampe merveilleuse. The theatre, which was 14,000 square metres in area with a 104 ft.

Many of the great grand operas of the 19th century were presented for the first time on its stage, among them: Rossini's Guillaume Tell (1829), Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable (1831), Halévy's La Juive (1835), and Verdi's Don Carlos (1867). Although the theatre was meant to be temporary and was built of wood and plaster, it continued to be used by the Opéra for more than fifty years. The Salle Le Peletier was inaugurated on 16 August 1821 with a mixed-bill that opened with the anthem 'Vive Henry VIII', and included the composer Catel's opera Les bayadères and the Ballet Master Gardel's ballet Le Retour de Zéphire. During the construction the opera and ballet companies occupied the Théâtre Favart and the Salle Louvois. Very soon after the death of his nephew in February 1820, the king commissioned the architect François Debret to design a new theatre for the Opéra on the Rue Le Peletier, which was completed one year later.

The Salle de la rue de Richelieu had been the principal venue of the Paris Opera since 1794. Today the Fontaine Louvois in the Square Louvois occupies the spot where the chapel would have been built. However, the project to build a chapel was never carried out due to the 1830 revolution.

When King Louis XVIII's nephew, Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, was fatally stabbed on the night of 13 February 1820 in front of the former theatre of the Paris Opera, the Salle de la rue de Richelieu, the king decided that the theatre would be demolished in order to build a commemorative chapel in its place. Glittering evening performances, mostly ballet, which youĬan attend.Performance of Charles-Simon Catel's opera Les bayadères for the inauguration of the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier on 16 August 1821 The magnificent building with nearly 2000 seats is still used for It is still sometimes used for performances Principal performance venue since 1989, the Palais In 1939, the name was changed again by simply replacing 'IMPERI' with 'NATION' in the entablature on the façade:Īlthough the Opéra National de Paris has used The original name was changed to Théâtre National de l'Opéra, usually shortened to Paris Opéra, when Napoleon III was deposed after the Franco-Prussian War (1870). It was the most expensive of the many magnificent-and highly-decorated-building projects by which Emperor Napoleon III changed the face of Paris. Place de l'Opéra ( map) was designed in Neo-baroqueīeaux-Arts style by Charles Garnier and opened in 1875

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