{"slug": "paris-opera", "label": "Paris Opera", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Opera", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283339", "qid": "Q283339", "description": "primary opera and ballet company of France", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1671, 1820], "span_label": ["1671 CE", "1820 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 8}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Académie d'Opéra", "Opéra de Paris"], "related": [{"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jean-baptiste-lully", "label": "Jean-Baptiste Lully", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "louis-xviii", "label": "Louis XVIII", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "french-language", "label": "French language", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theatre-du-palais-royal-rue-saint-honore", "label": "Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1671, "year_label": "1671 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Pomone, written by Robert Cambert and considered by modern scholars to be the first French opera, is given its first performance. Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the Académie d'Opéra at the Salle de la Bouteille theater in Paris is a success.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365991065#January–March", "title": "1671", "revid": 1365991065, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1673, "year_label": "1673 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Cadmus et Hermione, the first opera written by Jean-Baptiste Lully, premières at the Paris Opera in France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992268#April–June", "title": "1673", "revid": 1365992268, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – The tragic opera Alceste, by Jean-Baptiste Lully, is performed for the first time, presented by the Paris Opera company at the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#January–March", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – The opera Orphée by Louis Lully receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#January–March", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – The opera Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) by the French composer Pascal Collasse receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#October–December", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – The first performance of the opera Médus, roi des Mèdes by François Bouvard takes place at the Paris Opera.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#July–September", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1763, "year_label": "1763 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – The Théâtre du Palais-Royal, home to the Paris Opera for almost 90 years, is destroyed in an accidental fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360202149#April–June", "title": "1763", "revid": 1360202149, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 24", "text": "24 November – Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège, a three-act operatic tragédie lyrique, composed by François-André Danican Philidor, was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle des Machines in the Palais des Tuileries in Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738658#Opera", "title": "1767 in France", "revid": 1353738658, "section": "Popular culture › Opera"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13 – The Assassination of the Duke of Berry takes place in Paris. The Duke of Berry, nephew of Louis XVIII, is stabbed to death while attending the Paris Opera.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#January–March", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}