See also: Bastille
The opera of the Bastille or opera Bastille is a room of opera located on the Place of the Bastille at Paris, designed by Carlos Ott and inaugurated in 1989. It is with the Opéra Garnier one of the two rooms assigned to the national Opéra of Paris.
History
The president François Mitterrand decides in 1982 the construction of a new opera in Paris in order to discharge the Opéra Garnier. He wants an opera modern and popular in order to democratize the classical music. For the needs for the time, one creates the Public corporation Opera-Bastille (EPOB).The site of the Station of Paris-Bastille, located between the street of Lyon and the street of Charenton and on the level of the place of the Bastille, is selected.
A contest to indicate the Architecte of this new opera is launched in 1983 and it is Carlos Ott, an architect canado - Uruguay in which carries it the November 10th 1984.
Work begins in 1984 with the demolition from the station from Paris-Bastille, open in 1859 and closed the December 14th 1969. It is useful until its demolition for various exposures.
The Opera is inaugurated the July 13rd 1989 for both hundredth birthday of the Storming of the Bastille , with a spectacle put in scene by Bob Wilson, the Night before the day, but the regular representations begin only the March 17th 1990, with Troyens of Berlioz.
Capacity of reception
- Big room of 2.703 places
- flexible Room from 300 to 1.200 places (planned in particular for the creation of contemporary works, this room carried out forever; space envisaged was transformed into 2005 in room of repetition for the orchestra: room GOUNOD)
- Amphitheater of 500 places
- Studio of 250 places
Related bonds
the National Opera of Paris
External bonds
- national Opera of Paris
- Visits of the national Opera of Paris: Opéra Bastille
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