La Monnaie, the Glossary

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1. 137 relations: Abstract art, Alain Altinoglu, André Grétry, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Antigone (Honegger), Antonio Pappano, Arthur Honegger, Atys (Lully), Auditorium, Auguste Alfred Rubé, Avant-garde, Émile Fabry, Ballet, Ballet of the 20th Century, Baroque music, Baroque Revival architecture, Belgian Revolution, Belgium, Belgium in the long nineteenth century, Benjamin Godard, Bernard Foccroulle, Bernd Loebe, Bombardment of Brussels, Box (theatre), Brocade, Brussels, Brussels Metro, Brussels Metro line 1, Brussels Metro line 5, Brussels tram route 3, Brussels tram route 4, Charles Vandenhove, Christina Scheppelmann, City of Brussels, Concerto Vocale, Culture of Belgium, Daniel Auber, Daniel Buren, Darius Milhaud, De Brouckère metro station, Department store, Eclecticism in art, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ernest Chausson, Ernest Reyer, Federal Government of Belgium, Fervaal, François-Joseph Talma, French opera, French Revolution, ... Expand index (87 more) »

2. 1700 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
3. Music venues completed in 1700
4. Music venues completed in 1819
5. Neoclassical architecture in Belgium
6. Opera houses in Belgium
7. Theatres completed in 1700
8. Theatres completed in 1819
9. Theatres in Brussels

Abstract art

Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Alain Altinoglu

Alain Altinoglu (born 9 October 1975) is a French conductor of Armenian descent, and an academic teacher.

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André Grétry

André Ernest Modeste Grétry (baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality.

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker (born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) is a contemporary dance choreographer.

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Antigone (Honegger)

Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles.

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Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is an English-Italian conductor and pianist.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Atys (Lully)

Atys (Attis) is a tragédie en musique, an early form of French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Fasti.

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Auditorium

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances.

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Auguste Alfred Rubé

Auguste Alfred Rubé (20 June 1817 – 13 April 1899) was a French painter noted especially for his theatre decorations.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Émile Fabry

Emile Fabry (1865–1966) was a Belgian artist and painter in the Symbolist style.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Ballet of the 20th Century

Ballet of the 20th Century (Ballet du XXme Siècle), was a ballet and contemporary dance company in Brussels, Belgium in 1960, by the French/Swiss choreographer Maurice Béjart.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Baroque Revival architecture

The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Belgian Revolution

The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Belgium in the long nineteenth century

In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch rule over the region, leading to the creation of the first independent Belgian state in 1830.

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Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 184910 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn.

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Bernard Foccroulle

Bernard Charles M. E. T. H. Foccroulle (born 23 November 1953) is a Belgian organist, composer, conductor and opera director.

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Bernd Loebe

Bernd Loebe (born 15 December 1952) is a German music journalist and opera manager.

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Bombardment of Brussels

During the Nine Years' War, the French Royal Army carried out a bombardment of Brussels from August 13–15, 1695.

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Box (theatre)

In a theatre, a box, loge, or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event.

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Brocade

Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Brussels Metro

The Brussels Metro (Métro de Bruxelles, Brusselse metro) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.

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Brussels Metro line 1

Line 1 is a rapid transit on the Brussels Metro in Belgium operated by STIB/MIVB. La Monnaie and Brussels Metro line 1 are city of Brussels.

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Brussels Metro line 5

Line 5 on the Brussels Metro is a rapid transit line operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects Herrmann-Debroux at the south-east of Brussels to Erasme/Erasmus at the south-west via the city centre. La Monnaie and Brussels Metro line 5 are city of Brussels.

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Brussels tram route 3

The premetro and tram route 3, is a tram route operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects connects the Esplanade stop (on the borders of Neder-Over-Heembeek, Laeken and Strombeek-Bever) with the Churchill stop in the southern municipality of Uccle. La Monnaie and Brussels tram route 3 are city of Brussels.

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Brussels tram route 4

The premetro and tram route 4 in Brussels, Belgium, is a tram route operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects the Stalle Parking stop in the southern municipality of Uccle to Brussels-North railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek. La Monnaie and Brussels tram route 4 are city of Brussels.

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Charles Vandenhove

Charles, Knight Vandenhove (3 July 1927, Teuven – 22 January 2019, Liège) was one of the leading Belgian architects of the 20th century.

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Christina Scheppelmann

Christina Scheppelmann is a German arts administrator.

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City of Brussels

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region (from which it is separate) and Belgium.

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Concerto Vocale

Concerto Vocale is a Belgian musical ensemble for baroque music.

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Culture of Belgium

The culture of Belgium involves both the aspects shared by all Belgians regardless of the language they speak and the differences between the main cultural communities: the Dutch-speaking Belgians (mostly Flemish) and the French-speaking Belgians (mostly Walloons and Brusselians).

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Daniel Auber

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.

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Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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De Brouckère metro station

De Brouckère is a rapid transit station located beneath the Place de Brouckère/De Brouckèreplein in central Brussels, Belgium. La Monnaie and de Brouckère metro station are city of Brussels.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

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Eclecticism in art

Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them".

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Emmanuel Chabrier

Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist.

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Ernest Chausson

Amédée-Ernest Chausson (20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer.

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Ernest Reyer

Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic.

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Federal Government of Belgium

The Federal Government of Belgium (Federale regering, Gouvernement fédéral, Föderalregierung) exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Fervaal

Fervaal, Op. 40, is an opera (action musicale or lyric drama) in three acts with a prologue by the French composer Vincent d'Indy.

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François-Joseph Talma

François Joseph Talma (15 January 1763 – 19 October 1826) was a French actor.

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French opera

French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Fromental Halévy

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French composer.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas.

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Gerard Mortier

Gerard Alfons August, Baron Mortier (25 November 1943 – 8 March 2014) was a Belgian opera director and administrator of Flemish origin.

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner".

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Gio Paolo Bombarda

Gio Paolo Bombarda (Rome, c.1650 – Paris, 6 December 1712) was the founder of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Gwendoline (opera)

Gwendoline is an opera in two acts and three scenes by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier, with a libretto by Catulle Mendès.

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Hérodiade

Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert.

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Italian opera

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language.

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Jaguarita l'Indienne

Jaguarita l'Indienne is a three-act opéra comique, to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe de Leuven, with music by Fromental Halévy.

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Jean-Antoine Petipa

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Petipa (16 February 1787, Paris – 28 July 1855, Saint Petersburg) was a French ballet dancer and the father of Marius Petipa.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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Jocelyn (opera)

Jocelyn (Op. 100) is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard, set to a French libretto by Paul Armand Silvestre and the tenor Victor Capoul.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.

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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death.

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Joseph Poelaert

Joseph Poelaert (21 March 1817 – 3 November 1879) was a Belgian architect.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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Julie (opera)

Julie is a one-act chamber opera written by the Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, who was composer-in-residence of the Brussels opera house, La Monnaie.

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Kazushi Ōno

(born 1960) is a Japanese conductor.

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L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (The Cheerful Man, the Thoughtful Man and the Moderate Man), HWV 55, is a pastoral ode by George Frideric Handel based on the poetry of John Milton.

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La muette de Portici

La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici, or The Dumb Girl of Portici), also called Masaniello in some versions, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe.

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Le roi Arthus

Le roi Arthus (King Arthur) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Ernest Chausson to his own libretto.

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Liège

Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.

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List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

The governor (landvoogd) or governor-general (gouverneur-generaal) of the Habsburg Netherlands was a representative appointed by the Holy Roman emperor (1504-1556), the king of Spain (1556-1598, 1621-1706), and the archduke of Austria (1716-1794), to administer the Burgundian inheritance of the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries when the monarch was absent from the territory.

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Lobby (room)

A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside.

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Louis Damesme

Louis Emmanuel Aimé Damesme was a French architect famous for designing the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie and the House of Jacques-Louis David, in Brussels.

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Ludovic Morlot

Ludovic Morlot (born 11 December 1973) is a French conductor.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Maria Malibran

Maria Felicia Malibran (24 March 1808 – 23 September 1836) was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century.

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Marius Petipa

Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer.

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Mark Morris (choreographer)

Mark William Morris (born August 29, 1956) is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments.

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Mark Wigglesworth

Mark Wigglesworth (born 19 July 1964) is a British conductor.

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Maurice Béjart

Maurice Béjart (1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Maurice Corneil de Thoran

Maurice Corneil de Thoran (Liège, 15 January 1881-Brussels, 6 January 1953), son of Paul Ernest de Thoran, was a Belgian musician.

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Maurice Huisman

Maurice Huisman (1912 – 23 July 1993) was a Belgian Opera director.

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Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria

Maximilian II (11 July 1662 – 26 February 1726), also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Mint (facility)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Nicholas Lens

Nicholas Lens Noorenbergh (born 1957) is a Belgian composer of contemporary music, particularly known for his operas.

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Opéra Royal de Wallonie

The Opéra royal de Wallonie (French; "Royal Opera of Wallonia") is an opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. La Monnaie and Opéra Royal de Wallonie are opera houses in Belgium and Organisations based in Belgium with royal patronage.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Palais Garnier

The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.

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Papier-mâché

Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti Papier-mâché, frequently written as paper mache, is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, and bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.

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Paul Du Bois

Paul Du Bois (1859–1938) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist, born in Aywaille, and died in Uccle, a municipality of Brussels (Belgium).

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Petipa

Petipa or Petipas is a French surname, which may refer to.

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Philippe Boesmans

Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher.

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Place de Brouckère

The italic or italic (Dutch) is a major square in central Brussels, Belgium. La Monnaie and Place de Brouckère are city of Brussels.

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Place de la Monnaie

The italic or italic (Dutch), meaning "Mint Square", is a major square in central Brussels, Belgium. La Monnaie and Place de la Monnaie are city of Brussels.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Prince Charles Alexander Emanuel of Lorraine (Charles Alexandre Emanuel, Prince de Lorraine; Karl Alexander von Lothringen und Bar; 12 December 1712 in Lunéville – 4 July 1780 in Tervuren) was a Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier, field marshal of the Imperial Army, and governor of the Austrian Netherlands.

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Reigen (opera)

Reigen (German 'Round Dance') is a German-language opera in ten scenes by Philippe Boesmans to a libretto by Luc Bondy after Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde (1897).

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Renaissance Revival architecture

Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes.

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René Jacobs

René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rococo Revival

The Rococo Revival style emerged in Britain and France in the 19th century.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Rue Neuve, Brussels

The italic or italic (Dutch), meaning "New Street", is a pedestrian street in central Brussels, Belgium. La Monnaie and Rue Neuve, Brussels are city of Brussels.

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Salammbô (Reyer)

Salammbô is an opera in five acts composed by Ernest Reyer to a French libretto by Camille du Locle.

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Sam Francis

Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.

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Shell Shock (opera)

Shell ShockRobert-Jan Bartunek, on reuters.com is an opera by Nicholas Lens set to an English-language libretto by Nick Cave.

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Sigurd

Sigurd (Sigurðr) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered.

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Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Sylvain Cambreling

Sylvain Cambreling (born 2 July 1948 in Amiens, France) is a French conductor.

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Sylvain Dupuis

Joseph Michel Sylvain Dupuis (9 October 1856 – 28 September 1931) was a Belgian conductor, composer, oboist, and music educator.

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Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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The Brussels Times

The Brussels Times is an English-language Belgian news website, and magazine, headquartered at Avenue Louise in Brussels.

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The Death of Klinghoffer

The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman.

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The Gambler (Prokofiev)

The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the 1866 story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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The Hard Nut

The Hard Nut is a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's 1892 The Nutcracker and choreographed by Mark Morris.

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Trams in Brussels

The Brussels tramway network is a tram system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.

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Treasurer

A treasurer is a person responsible for the financial operations of a government, business, or other organization.

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Triptych

A triptych is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open.

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United Kingdom of the Netherlands

The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) is the unofficial name given to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume des Belgiques) as it existed between 1815 and 1830.

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Velvet

Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vincent d'Indy

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher.

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".

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Vlaamse Opera

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Dutch; "Opera Ballet Flanders") is an opera and ballet company in Belgium directed by Jan Vandenhouwe. La Monnaie and Vlaamse Opera are opera houses in Belgium.

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Whitewash

Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO3), sometimes known as "whiting".

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William I of the Netherlands

William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.

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Wintermärchen

Wintermärchen is an opera by Philippe Boesmans to a libretto by Luc Bondy and after Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

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See also

1700 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire

• Astronomical Calculation Institute (Heidelberg University)
• Dallmayr
• Krameramtsstuben
• La Monnaie

Music venues completed in 1700

• La Monnaie

Music venues completed in 1819

• La Monnaie
• Staatstheater Darmstadt

Neoclassical architecture in Belgium

• Broel Museum
• Brussels Park
• Château Charles
• Château de Seneffe
• Château of Mariemont
• Cinquantenaire Arcade
• Congress Column
• Gordon Monument
• House of Jacques-Louis David
• La Monnaie
• Mesen Castle
• Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution
• Neoclassical architecture in Belgium
• Orval Abbey
• Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo
• Pavilion of Human Passions
• Place Royale, Brussels
• Place des Palais
• Royal Park Theatre
• St. Joseph Minor Seminary

Opera houses in Belgium

• La Monnaie
• Opéra Royal de Wallonie
• Vlaamse Opera

Theatres completed in 1700

• La Monnaie

Theatres completed in 1819

• La Monnaie
• Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Virginia)
• Staatstheater Darmstadt
• Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

Theatres in Brussels

• La Monnaie
• Opéra du Quai au Foin
• Opéra flamand
• Royal Flemish Theatre
• Royal Park Theatre
• Royal Theatre Toone
• Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
• Théâtre Royal des Galeries

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monnaie

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