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Paris Opera, the Glossary

The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.^[1]

180 relations: A.-M. Julien, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Royale de Danse, Alain Lombard, Alceste (Lully), Alexandre-Étienne Choron, Alphonse Royer, André Campra, André Cardinal Destouches, Arthur Pougin, Auguste Vaucorbeil, Éden-Théâtre, Émile Perrin, Ballet, Baroque dance, Bernard Lefort, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bordeaux, Bourbon Restoration in France, Brigitte Lefèvre, Cadmus et Hermione, Cardinal Richelieu, Carlo Vigarani, Carlos Ott, Carnival, Charles Garnier (architect), Charles X of France, Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Choir, Cirque Olympique, Classical ballet, Claude Lecomte (opera director), Comédie-Française, Comédie-Italienne, Corps de ballet, Daniel Lesur, Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté, Easter, Eugène Bertrand, Eugène Ritt, First French Empire, François Habeneck, François Lays, François Rebel, François-Joseph Gossec, François-Louis Crosnier, French art salons and academies, French First Republic, French Republican calendar, ... Expand index (130 more) »
1669 establishments in France
Arts and culture in the Ancien Régime
French opera companies
Institut de France
Music schools in Paris
Opera history
Opera in France
Theatres completed in 1669

A.-M. Julien

A.-M. Julien, real name Aman-Julien Maistre, (24 July 1903 – 15 January 2001) was a French actor, singer and theatre manager.

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Académie des Beaux-Arts

The is a French learned society based in Paris. Paris Opera and Académie des Beaux-Arts are institut de France.

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The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established in the Western world. Paris Opera and Académie Royale de Danse are arts and culture in the Ancien Régime.

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Alain Lombard

Alain Lombard (born 4 October 1940, Paris) is a French conductor.

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Alceste (Lully)

Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Paris Opera and Alceste (Lully) are Louis XIV.

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Alexandre-Étienne Choron

Alexandre-Étienne Choron (21 October 1771 – 29 June 1834) was a French musicologist.

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Alphonse Royer

Alphonse Royer, (10 September 1803 – 11 April 1875) was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written (with his regular collaborator, Gustave Vaëz) the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem.

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André Campra

André Campra (baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several tragédies en musique and opéra-ballets that were extremely well received.

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André Cardinal Destouches

André Cardinal Destouches (sometimes called des Touches) (baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.

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Arthur Pougin

Arthur Pougin (6 August 1834 – 8 August 1921) was a French musical and dramatic critic and writer.

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Auguste Vaucorbeil

Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, born Veaucorbeille, (15 December 1821 – 2 November 1884) was a French composer and theatre manager.

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Éden-Théâtre

The Éden-Théâtre was a large theatre (4,000 seats) in the rue Boudreau, Paris, built at the beginning of the 1880s by the architects William Klein and Albert Duclos (1842–1896) in a style influenced by orientalism.

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Émile Perrin

Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885.

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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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Baroque dance

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera.

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Bernard Lefort

Bernard Lefort (29 July 1922 – 19 January 1999), was a French lyric baritone, and later an opera director.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Bourbon Restoration in France

The Second Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of the First French Empire in 1815.

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Brigitte Lefèvre

Brigitte Lefèvre (born 15 November 1944) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.

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Cadmus et Hermione

Cadmus et Hermione is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Carlo Vigarani

Carlo Vigarani (– 17 February 1713)Sheren and La Gorce 2001.

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Carlos Ott

Carlos Adolfo Ott (born October 16, 1946) is a Uruguayan-Canadian architect.

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Carnival

Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

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Charles Garnier (architect)

Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

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Charles X of France

Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830.

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Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter

Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter was a French librettist, translator, writer and librarian born in Paris, France, on 24 April 1828.

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Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the département of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris, France.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Cirque Olympique

The Cirque Olympique in Paris, also known as the Cirque Franconi, was an equestrian theatre company, founded in 1782 by Philip Astley, the English inventor of the modern circus ring, and was initially known as the Cirque d'Astley or the Cirque Anglais.

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Classical ballet

Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.

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Claude Lecomte (opera director)

Claude Lecomte was an 18th-century French financier who participated in the direction of the Académie Royale de musique on two occasions between 1730 and 1733.

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Comédie-Française

The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France. Paris Opera and Comédie-Française are opera history.

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Comédie-Italienne

Comédie-Italienne or Théâtre-Italien are French names which have been used to refer to Italian-language theatre and opera when performed in France. Paris Opera and Comédie-Italienne are opera history.

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Corps de ballet

In ballet, the corps de ballet (French for "body of the little dance") is the group of dancers who are not principal dancers or soloists.

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Daniel Lesur

Daniel Jean-Yves Lesur (19 November 1908 – 2 July 2002) was a French organist and composer.

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Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté

Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté (Châlons-en-Champagne 17 February 1727 — Paris 7 July 1794) was an amateur draughtsman, designer and print collector; an art critique and connoisseur.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eugène Bertrand

Eugène Bertrand (15 January 1834 – 30 December 1899) was a French comedian, theatre managing director and opera house director.

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Eugène Ritt

Jean Eugène Ritt (23 March 1817 – 11 March 1898) was a French actor and theatre director.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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François Habeneck

François Antoine Habeneck (22 January 1781 – 8 February 1849) was a French classical violinist and conductor.

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François Lays

François Lay, better known under the stage name Lays (14 February 1758 – 30 March 1831), was a French baritone and tenor opera singer.

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François Rebel

François Rebel (19 June 17017 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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François-Joseph Gossec

François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.

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François-Louis Crosnier

François-Louis Crosnier (12 May 1792 – 1 September 1867) was a French theatre manager, politician, and playwright, who used the pen name Edmond Crosnier.

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French art salons and academies

From the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century, artistic production in France was controlled by artistic academies which organized official exhibitions called salons. Paris Opera and French art salons and academies are arts and culture in the Ancien Régime.

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French First Republic

In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.

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French Republican calendar

The French Republican calendar (calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871, and meant to replace the Gregorian calendar.

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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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French Second Republic

The French Second Republic, officially the French Republic, was the second republican government of France.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.

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Georges Auric

Georges Auric (15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France.

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Georges Hirsch

Georges Hirsch (22 February 1895 – 12 May 1974) was a French theater director, a member of the French Resistance, and municipal councillor of Paris.

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Georges-François Hirsch

Georges-François Hirsch (born 5 October 1944 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris) is a French stage director.

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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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Giovanni Battista Viotti

Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gustave Chouquet

Gustave Chouquet (16 April 1819 – 30 January 1886)Grove & Charlton 2001.

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Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist.

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Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre)

Hôtel de Bourgogne was a theatre, built in 1548 for the first authorized theatre troupe in Paris, the Confrérie de la Passion.

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Henri Desmarets

Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.

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Henri Duponchel

Henri Duponchel (28 July 1794 – 8 April 1868) was in turn a French architect, interior designer, costume designer, stage designer, stage director, managing director of the Paris Opera, and a silversmith.

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Henri Rabaud

Henri Benjamin Rabaud (10 November 187311 September 1949) was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Hervé Lacombe

Hervé Lacombe is a French musicologist, a professor at the University Rennes 2 since 2002 and a specialist of music of France.

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Hugues Gall

Hugues Randolph Gall (18 March 1940 – 25 May 2024) was a French opera manager who was head of the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Paris Opera.

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Hundred Days

The Hundred Days (les Cent-Jours), also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition (Guerre de la Septième Coalition), marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).

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Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont

Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont (or Du Mont), called Dumont (1647 - 16 March 1726) was a French administrator.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jacques Cellerier

Jacques Cellerier (1742–1814) was a French architect in the neoclassical style whose buildings can be seen mainly in Paris and Dijon.

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Jacques de Vismes

Anne-Pierre-Jacques de Vismes, or Devismes, (1745, Paris – 1819, Caudebec-en-Caux) was a French writer and administrator.

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Jacques Ibert

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music.

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Jacques Lemercier

Jacques Lemercier (c. 1585 in Pontoise – 13 January 1654 in Paris) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current Roman practice the fresh, essentially French synthesis associated with Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII.

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Jacques Rouché

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché (16 November 1862, Lunel - 9 November 1957, Paris) was a French art and music patron.

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism.

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James Conlon

James Conlon (born March 18, 1950) is an American conductor.

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Jérôme de La Gorce

Jérôme de La Gorce (born 1951 in Paris) is a French art historian and musicologist.

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Jean-Albert Cartier

Jean-Albert Cartier (15 May 1930 – 27 December 2015) was a French art critic and director of cultural institutions.

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. Paris Opera and Jean-Baptiste Colbert are Louis XIV.

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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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Jean-Claude Trial

Jean-Claude Trial (13 December 1732 - 23 June 1771) was a French composer and, with Pierre Montan Berton, co-director of the Académie Royale de Musique 1767-1771, following François Francœur and François Rebel and preceding Antoine Dauvergne and Nicolas-René Joliveau.

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Jean-Louis Martinoty

Jean-Louis Martinoty (20 January 1946 in Étampes – 27 January 2016 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French writer and an opera director..

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Jean-Nicolas de Francine

Jean-Nicolas de Francine (1662–1735) was a director of the Opéra national de Paris.

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Jean-Paul Cluzel

Jean-Paul Cluzel (born 29 January 1947) is a French government official and politician.

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Joseph Bonet de Treyches

Joseph-Balthazar Bonet de Treyches (28 March 1757 – 8 August 1828) was a politician during the French Revolution.

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Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (12 May 1703 – 11 January 1755) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist, organist, and administrator.

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July Monarchy

The July Monarchy (Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under italic, starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 February 1848, with the Revolution of 1848.

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L'Europe galante

L'Europe galante (Galant Europe) is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and four entrées by André Campra to a French libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte.

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Leimistin Broussan

Leimistin Broussan (3 November 1858 – 1 October 1959) was a French theatre and opera manager.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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List of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully

This article contains a list of the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully (LWV); also lists of the dance-forms and instruments he frequently was to use.

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List of theatres and entertainment venues in Paris

This List of theatres and entertainment venues in Paris includes present-day opera houses and theatres, cabarets, music halls and other places of live entertainment in Paris.

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Livre tournois

The livre tournois (abbreviation: ₶.) was one of numerous currencies used in medieval France, and a unit of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in Early Modern France.

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Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin (in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis XVI

Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

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Louis-Basile de Bernage

Louis-Basile de Bernage (baptized 4 February 1691, Paris; died 12 May 1767, Paris) was a French aristocrat, seigneur of Saint-Maurice, Vaux, and Chassy, and a politician under the ancien régime.

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Louis-Benoît Picard

Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.

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Louis-Désiré Véron

Louis-Désiré Véron (1798 in Paris – September 27, 1867 in Paris) was a French opera manager and publisher.

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Louis-Joseph Francœur

Louis Joseph Francœur in 1780. Engraving by Thérèse Éléonore Lingéehttp://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/andre-pujos_therese-eleonore-lingee_reine-philiberte-rouph-de-varicourt-1757-1822-marquise-de-villette-dite-belle-et-bonne-fille-adoptive-de-voltaire_aquatinte Portrait of Thérèse Éléonore Lingée after a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. Paris Opera and Louvre are institut de France.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Mademoiselle Montansier

Marguerite Brunet, known by her stage name of Mademoiselle Montansier (19 December 1730, in Bayonne – 13 July 1820, in Paris), was a French actress and theatre director.

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Marcel Samuel-Rousseau

Marcel Auguste Louis Samuel-Rousseau (né Rousseau; 18 August 1882 – 11 June 1955) was a French composer, organist, and opera director.

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (Maria Antoina Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen consort of France prior to the French Revolution as the wife of King Louis XVI.

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Marie Taglioni

Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance.

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Marin Marais

Marin Marais (31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Massimo Bogianckino

Massimo Bogianckino (10 November 1922 – 8 December 2009) was an Italian pianist, artistic director, and politician.

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Maurice Lehmann

Maurice Lehmann (1895–1974) was a French actor, director and producer of the stage and screen.

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The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the Maison du Roi responsible for the "lesser pleasures of the King", which meant in practice that it was in charge of all the preparations for ceremonies, events and festivities, down to the last detail of design and order. Paris Opera and Menus-Plaisirs du Roi are arts and culture in the Ancien Régime.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.

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Molière's company

Molière's company (La Troupe de Molière) was the theatrical company which formed around Molière from 1648 onwards, when he was performing in the French provinces after the failure of the Illustre Théâtre in 1645.

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Myung-whun Chung

Myung-whun Chung (born 22 January 1953) is a South Korean conductor and pianist.

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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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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Nestor Roqueplan

Louis-Victor-Nestor Roqueplan (16 September 1805 – 24 April 1870) was a French writer, journalist, and theatre director.

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Nicolas Joel

Nicolas Joel or Joël (6 February 195318 June 2020) was a French opera director and administrator of opera houses.

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Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon (Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres.

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Opéra Bastille

The Opéra Bastille ("Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Opéra station (Paris Métro)

Opéra is a station on Lines 3, 7 and 8 of the Paris Métro.

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Opéra-Comique

The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. Paris Opera and Opéra-Comique are French opera companies and opera history.

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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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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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Palais-Royal

The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paris Commune (1789–1795)

The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795.

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Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera.

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Pascal Collasse

Pascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 (baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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Pedro Gailhard

Pedro or Pierre Gailhard, full name Pierre Samson Gailhard, (1 August 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a French opera singer and theatre director.

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Philippe Jordan

Philippe Jordan (born 18 October 1974) is a Swiss conductor and pianist.

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Pierre Beauchamp

Pierre Beauchamp or Beauchamps (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet notation.

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Pierre Bergé

Pierre Vital Georges Bergé (14 November 1930 – 8 September 2017) was a French industrialist and patron.

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Pierre Montan Berton

Pierre Montan Berton (7 January 1727 – 14 May 1780) was a French composer and conductor.

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Pierre Perrin

Pierre Perrin (– 24 April 1675) was a French poet and librettist.

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Place de l'Opéra

The Place de l'Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of the Boulevard des Italiens, Boulevard des Capucines, Avenue de l'Opéra,,, Rue de la Paix and.

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Positions of the feet in ballet

The positions of the feet in ballet is a fundamental part of classical ballet technique that defines standard placements of feet on the floor.

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René Nicoly

René Eugène Joseph Nicoly (22 September 1907 in Avon (Seine-et-Marne) - 22 May 1971 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris) was the founding president of the Jeunesses musicales de France.

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Rolf Liebermann

Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator.

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Rouen

Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France.

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Rue de Richelieu

The Rue de Richelieu is a long street of Paris, starting in the south of the 1st arrondissement at the Comédie-Française and ending in the north of the 2nd arrondissement.

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Rue de Vaugirard

The Rue de Vaugirard (English: Street of Vaugirard) is the longest street inside Paris's former city walls, at.

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Salle de la Bouteille

The Salle de la Bouteille or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, later known as the Hôtel Guénégaud or Guénégaud Theatre, was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and the rue des Fossés de Nesle (now 42 rue Mazarine, at its intersection with the rue Jacques Callot).

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Salle du Bel-Air

The Salle du Bel-Air or Salle du Jeu de Paume de Béquet (Hall of the Béquet Tennis Court), also spelled Becquet, was a 1672 theatre located in Paris, France.

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Salle Le Peletier

The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire in 1873.

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Salle Ventadour

The Salle Ventadour, a former Parisian theatre in the rue Neuve-Ventadour, now the rue Méhul (2nd arrondissement of Paris), was built between 1826 and 1829 for the Opéra-Comique, to designs by Jacques-Marie Huvé, a prominent architect.

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Second French Empire

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stéphane Lissner

Stéphane Lissner (born 23 January 1953) is a French theatre director.

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Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique

The (literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet.

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Théâtre de l'Athénée (rue Scribe)

Théâtre de l'Athénée or Salle de l'Athénée was the name of a theatre in the basement of a building built in 1865 by the banker Bischoffsheim at 17 rue Scribe in the 9th arrondissement of Paris (near the new, but at the time unfinished opera house, now known as the Palais Garnier).

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Théâtre de la foire

Théâtre de la foire is the collective name given to the theatre put on at the annual fairs at Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent (and for a time, at Saint-Ovide) in Paris.

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Théâtre de la Gaîté (boulevard du Temple)

The Théâtre de la Gaîté, a former Parisian theatre company, was founded in 1759 on the boulevard du Temple by the celebrated Parisian fair-grounds showman Jean-Baptiste Nicolet as the Théâtre de Nicolet, ou des Grands Danseurs.

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Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin)

In 1862 during Haussmann's modernization of Paris, the Théâtre de la Gaîté of the boulevard du Temple was relocated to the rue Papin across from the Square des Arts et Métiers.

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Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin

The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin is a venerable theatre and opera house at 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

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Théâtre de la Renaissance

The name Théâtre de la Renaissance has been used successively for three distinct Parisian theatre companies.

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Théâtre de la Ville

(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet.

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Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens

The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens is a Parisian theatre founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta.

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is an entertainment venue standing at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris.

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Théâtre des Nouveautés

The Théâtre des Nouveautés ("Theatre of the New") is a Parisian theatre built in 1921 and located at 24 boulevard Poissonnière (Paris, 9th arr.). The name was also used by several earlier Parisian theatre companies and their buildings, beginning in 1827.

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Théâtre des Tuileries

The Théâtre des Tuileries was a theatre in the former Tuileries Palace in Paris.

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Théâtre des Variétés

The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris.

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Théâtre du Châtelet

The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell

The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a theatre in Paris, at 38 Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle in the 10th arrondissement (métro: Bonne Nouvelle).

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Théâtre du Marais

The Théâtre du Marais has been the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France.

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Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)

The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (or Grande Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame.

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Théâtre du Vaudeville

The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris.

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Théâtre Feydeau

The Théâtre Feydeau, a former Parisian theatre company, was founded in 1789 with the patronage of Monsieur, Comte de Provence (later to become Louis XVIII), and was therefore initially named the Théâtre de Monsieur.

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Théâtre Louvois

The Théâtre Louvois or Salle Louvois was a theatre located at what is today 8 rue de Louvois in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.

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Théâtre Lyrique

The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien). Paris Opera and Théâtre Lyrique are French opera companies.

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Théâtre National (rue de la Loi)

The Théâtre National was a Parisian theatre located across from the on the rue de la Loi, which was the name of the rue de Richelieu from 1793 to 1806.

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Théodore Lajarte

Théodore Lajarte (10 July 1826 – 20 June 1890) was a French musicologist, librarian, and composer.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera.

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The Phantom of the Opera (novel)

The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by the French author Gaston Leroux.

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WorldCat

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative.

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References

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

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