![]() Vitanomy is a concept and platform which is open to and useful to everyone, but one that undoubtedly has much of its core beliefs and values firmly rooted in those of western civilization. In addition there are productions of Simon Boccanegra, Otello, & Don Pasquale to look forward to along with a marvellous diptych Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski’s Iolanta and The Nutcracker and the world premiere of Berenice, by Michael Jarrell, based on the tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine.īelow is a summary of ballet and opera events at both venues.When I started vitanomy, I envisioned that one of its core objectives was to aim to motivate the individual to seek inspiration from a higher set of ideals. Powerfully and beautifully voiced Anja Harteros appears in the title role of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca in May. Later in the season talented Camilla Nylund stars in Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka –from 29th January 2019. This is bound to be a sell out performance! Anna Netrebko photo by Manfred Werner (Tsui) There is another amazing gala night Gala des 350 ans de l’Opéra on 8th May 2019 which this time features the amazing operatic diva Anna Netrebko with tenor Yusif Eyvazov. ![]() Stars performing on for this extraordinary nights are Sonya Yoncheva, Bryan Hymel and Ludovic Tézier. On 30th and 31st December is the Opening Gala of The 350th Anniversary Year . New year is an extra special time this year for the Paris Opera. Diana Damrau photo by Franz Johan Morgenbesser The amazing Diana Damrau plays Marguerite de Valois. Andreas Schager photo by Lyrten71Īlso in September, from 28th is Giacomo Meyerbeer’s revolutionary grand opera. The season opens on September 11th 2018, with one of Richard Wagner’s best loved operas – Tristan and Isolde, this stars much lauded Austrian tenor Andreas Schager in the male lead. L’Opéra National de Paris, recently announced the exciting programme for its 2018 – 2019 season, which opens in September and here are some of the highlights! Opéra National de Paris Bastille photo Riggwelter at wts wikivoyage Built on the site of the former Paris-Bastille railway station (which opened in 1859) it was inaugurated on the 13th July 1989 on the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. The project was initiated in 1982 by president François Mitterrand who wanted a modern and popular opera, to give a lighter feel to the programme of the l’Opera Garnier. It was built by architect Carlos Ott, winner of an international competition to which over 1700 architects submitted plans. Both operate under the direction of the Opéra National de Paris. L’ Opera Bastille is in Place de la Bastille in the 11th arrondissement on the eastern side of Paris. A second Parisian opera house, the Opéra Bastille, was inaugurated in 1989. The first opera performed there was Fromental Halévy’s work La Juive on Jan. The building, considered one of the masterpieces of the Second Empire style, was begun in 1861 and opened with an orchestral concert on Jan. Opéra National De Paris, also known as Palais Garnier, was formerly Académie Nationale de Musique, a Parisian opera house designed by Charles Garnier ( who won a competition to design it).The Paris Opéra received its world-renowned edifice owing to Napoleon III, who commissioned the building of a majestic opera house at the top of the grand, new thoroughfare appropriately named Avenue de l’Opéra. Even today, it employs over a thousand people and contains two permanent ballet schools within the building. At the time in which the novel is set, the Opera House boasted over fifteen hundred employees and had its own stables of white horses for the opera troupe underneath the forecourt. The iconic Palais Garnier has been called “probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica.” This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel’s subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular 1986 musical of the same name! Panoramic view of Paris with Opéra National De Paris at the centre photo by Wouter Hagensįrom prima donna to stage-hand, the Opera House was governed by intrigue and rumour everyone jostling for position, defending their own territory and scrabbling for new. 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.
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