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    Brussels at La Monnaie in 1865, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1878, Monte Carlo in 1890 and finally in completely revised version the Paris Opéra in 1903...
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    The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in...
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    the Opera Garnier by a copy made by Jean Juge. The original was moved to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986. Sculpture at the Opéra Garnier Façade of the Opéra Garnier...
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    The current Place de la Bastille is located on the former fort's site. In addition to the July Column, it is also home to the Opéra Bastille. The large...
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    Palais Garnier, one of the theatres of the Paris Opéra. The musicians and others associated with the Opéra-Comique have made important contributions to operatic...
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    of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, opened at the Place de la Bastille. The...
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    The Opéra royal de Wallonie (French; "Royal Opera of Wallonia") is an opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. Together with La Monnaie...
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    The Strasbourg Opera House (French: Opéra de Strasbourg), located on Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department...
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    Marie van Goethem (category Paris Opera Ballet dancers)
    student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans)...
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  • sewers below the Opéra house. The two board a small boat and cross a subterranean lake to his secret lair ("The Phantom of the Opera"). The Phantom explains...
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    André Grétry (category French opera composers)
    commemorative statue was made of him by Jean-Baptiste Stouf. It was commissioned in 1804 by Hippolyte, comte de Livry, and placed in the Opéra Comique in...
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    Fénélon's Salammbô was first performed at the Opéra Bastille in 1998. La statue, 1861 opera by Reyer Sigurd, 1884 opera by Reyer Notes Lina Pacary on data.bnf...
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    of Place de la Concorde on Lines 1, 8, and 12 of the Paris Métro. The square was originally designed to be the site of an equestrian statue of King Louis...
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    III commissioned a statue of Joséphine, which was installed in the La Savane park in downtown Fort-de-France. In 1991, the statue was symbolically decapitated...
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    Ernest Reyer (category French opera composers)
    through to 1860. In 1861, Reyer composed an opéra-comique in three acts and six scenes, La statue ("The Statue"), whose plot was inspired by "One Thousand...
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  • Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) have been created worldwide. The original Statue of Liberty, designed by sculptor...
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    Zampa (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre (Zampa, or the Marble Bride) is an opéra comique in three acts by French composer Ferdinand Hérold, with a libretto by...
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    Théâtre Italien and then at the Opéra. He wrote several ballets for the latter, but was best known as a composer of opéra comique. Some of them, particularly...
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    La dame blanche (English: The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written...
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    collection of paintings, drafts, statues, costumes, and other documents regarding the history of La Scala and of opera in general. La Scala also hosts the Accademia...
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    the oldest wooden frame opera houses in Europe not to have burnt or required rebuilding. Today, the theatre is home to the Opéra National de Bordeaux, as...
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    Teatro La Fenice (pronounced [la feˈniːtʃe], "The Phoenix") is a historic opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks...
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    Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet. It was first produced at La Scala in Milan on 26 December 1831. The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel canto genre...
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    André Campra (category French opera composers)
    Venise, opéra-ballet (1699) Hésione, tragédie en musique (1700) Aréthuse, opéra-ballet (1701) Tancrède, tragédie en musique (1702) Les muses, opéra-ballet...
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    the opera La bohème. The song tells the story of Roan, a sculptor whose wife dies in the winter and, while in grief of her death, carves a statue of her...
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    Giuseppe Verdi (category Italian opera composers)
    concluded an agreement with the Opéra to write what became Les vêpres siciliennes, his first original work in the style of grand opera. In February 1852, the couple...
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    original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The...
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    the statue's base: "Here am I waiting for revenge against the scoundrel who killed me" ("Dell'empio che mi trasse al passo estremo qui attendo la vendetta")...
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    July, he performed at the Statue of Liberty in New York City for his third PBS special American Dream: Andrea Bocelli's Statue Of Liberty Concert. The concert...
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    Opera House, formally known as Rouen Normandy Opera House - Theatre of Arts (French: Opéra de Rouen Normandie - Théâtre des arts) is a French opera house...
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