The King granted to the poet Pierre Perrin the privilege to present operatic productions, which combined an Italianate style of music with French verse. The opulent and flamboyant design corresponds to the era perfectly. The Paris Opéra dates back to the reign of Louis XIV and the founding in 1669 of the Académie d’Opéra.
The Paris opera dates back to the period of the Second Empire. National Opéra De Paris in 1965 photo by Willem van de Poll Brief History. This week’s blog is about a few of the amazing productions taking place in the newly announced 2010-2020 season. Each season cements the rich historical tradition and plays host to ta plethora of stars. Founded more than three centuries ago by Louis XIV, it possesses two theatres, the Palais Garnier (1875) and the Opéra Bastille (1989). Behind the stage are the rehearsal rooms where Degas often sketched.The Paris Opera is one of the world’s greatest opera and ballet houses. The dome sits above the audience and orchestra, the high roof over the stage. was meant to be much more than a theater in the ordinary sense.įor Charles Garnier, an architect of the Ecole des beaux-arts, it was a setting for a ritual in which the spectators were also actors, participants in the rite of social encounter, seeing and being seen." The division of the structure supports his vision. The glittering centerpiece of the new Paris.
Marvin Trachtenberg & Isabel Hyman have called the huge Opéra house, "the new cathedral of bourgeois Paris. Frequented by Degas and the source for much of his ballet imagery, the Paris Opéra is key to understanding the somewhat perverse culture of voyeurism and spectacle among the prosperous classes of the Second Empire. The Paris Opéra (1860–75), designed by Charles Garnier, is one of the jewels of Napoleon III's newly reconstructed city.
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