List of performances of French Grand Operas at the Paris Opéra

List of performances of French Grand Operas at the Paris Opéra

The following list gives number of performances of Grand Opera at the Paris Opera from première to 1962, (as given by Stéphane Wolff, Albert Soubies and other sources)

*"La muette de Portici", (Auber), premiere 1828: 489 perf.; last in 1882.

*"Guillaume Tell", (Rossini), premiere 1829: 911 perf.; last in 1930.

*"Robert le diable" (Meyerbeer), premiere 1831: 751 perf.; last in 1892; revived in 1984.

*"Gustave III" (Auber), premiere 1833: 168 perf.; last in 1853

*"La Juive" (Fromental Halévy), premiere 1835: 534 perf., last in 1934; revived in 2007.

*"Les Huguenots" (Meyerbeer), premiere 1836: 1120 perf.; last in 1936.

*"Les martyrs" (version of "Poliuto)" (Donizetti), premiere 1840: 20 perf.; last in 1842.

*"La reine de Chypre" (Halévy), premiere 1841 152 perf.; last in 1878.

*"Charles VI" (Halévy), premiere 1843 61 perf.; last in 1850.

*"Dom Sebastien" (Donizetti), premiere 1843: 33 perf.; last in 1849.

*"Jérusalem" (Giuseppe Verdi), premiere 1847: 20 perf.; last in 1849.

*"Le prophète" (Meyerbeer), premiere 1849: 573 perf.; last in 1912.

*"Les vêpres siciliennes" (Verdi), premiere 1855: 81 perf.; last in 1864.

*"La reine de Saba" (Gounod), premiere 1862: 15 perf.; last in 1862.

*"L'Africaine" (Meyerbeer), premiere 1865: 484 perf.; last in 1902.

*"Don Carlos" (Verdi), premiere 1867: 81 perf.; last in 1864.

*"Hamlet" (Ambroise Thomas), premiere 1868: 384 perf.; last in 1938.

*"Le roi de Lahore" (Jules Massenet), premiere 1877: 57 perf.; last in 1879.

*"Polyeucte" (Gounod), premiere 1878: 29 perf.; last in 1879.

*"Henry VIII" (Saint-Saëns), premiere 1883: 87 perf.; last in 1919.

*"Le cid" (Massenet), premiere 1885: 152 perf.; last in 1919.

*"Patrie !" (Paladilhe), premiere1886: 93 perf.; last in 1919.

References

* Soubies, Albert: "Soixante-sept Ans a L'Opéra en une Page, 1826-1893"; Paris, 1893;
* Wolff, Stephane: "L'Opéra au Palais Garnier 1875-1962"; Paris n.d. but probably 1963


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