National opera of Paris

The national Opéra of Paris is a industrial and commercial public corporation French placed under the supervision of the ministry for the Culture. It has the role of making available to the greatest number works of the lyric and choreographic inheritance and of also supporting the creation and the representation of works comtemporaines. It has two rooms for this reason: the palate Garnier (which shelter the Ballet of the national Opera of Paris) and the Opéra Bastille.

The national Opera of Paris contributes in addition to professional training and the improvement of the Chanteur S and the Danseur S, by its training center of lyric art and the school of dance of Nanterre.

Lastly, the sector animation and public young person of the national opera of Paris work out each season a teaching program.

History of the national Opera of Paris

Known initially under the name of “Academy of opera”, the royal Académie of Music is founded in 1669 at the instigation of Colbert and in answer to the royal Académie of Dance. Charged with diffusing the opera French near the public, not only with Paris but also in other cities of the kingdom, one takes the practice to call it simply “the Opera”.

Having like only financial resources only the entries of the spectators (and not, as for the Comédie-Française or the Theater-Italian, a royal “subsidy”), the Opera obtains the privilege to represent “plays in music”, with prohibition with whoever to make some in the same way without have obtained the authorization of the holders.

The first with bénéficer of the privilege are Pierre Perrin and Robert Cambert, as two associated which is not long in swindling Perrin. Imprisoned for debts, this last is constrained to yield its privilege to Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1672, with the success which one knows. Lully and its successors besides will negotiate the transfer of the privilege bitterly, for whole or part, with contractors of province: Pierre Gautier buys in 1684 the authorization to open an academy of music to Marseilles, then the towns of Lyon, Rouen, Lille and Bordeaux make some as much in the years which follow.

The royal Académie of Music will change thirteen times of places of representations during the 18th century, until its transformation, with the Révolution, in “Theater of Arts”, which one calls today the national Opéra of Paris . The Opera of Paris was often involved in debt. In 1875, the institution occupies the Palais Garnier then in 1990 the Opera-Bastille.

Letters patent of June 28th, 1669

The June 28th 1669, the king grants to Perrin, by Letter patent, exclusiveness to give operas to Paris and in all the kingdom. Here is the text.

Fifteen rooms of the Opera of Paris

The tradition retains fifteen rooms distinct used by the Opera from Paris for its spectacles. This list includes/understands only the ordinary rooms of the theater, abstraction made of those which could be used for representations outside.

Directors and ballet masters

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