- List of performances of French Grand Operas at the Paris Opéra
The following list gives number of performances of
Grand Opera at theParis Opera from première to 1962, (as given by Stéphane Wolff, Albert Soubies and other sources)*"
La muette de Portici ", (Auber ), premiere1828 : 489 perf.; last in 1882.*"
Guillaume Tell ", (Rossini ), premiere1829 : 911 perf.; last in 1930.*"
Robert le diable " (Meyerbeer ), premiere1831 : 751 perf.; last in 1892; revived in 1984.*"Gustave III" (Auber), premiere
1833 : 168 perf.; last in 1853*"
La Juive " (Fromental Halévy ), premiere1835 : 534 perf., last in 1934; revived in 2007.*"
Les Huguenots " (Meyerbeer), premiere1836 : 1120 perf.; last in 1936.*"Les martyrs" (version of "
Poliuto )" (Donizetti ), premiere1840 : 20 perf.; last in 1842.*"
La reine de Chypre " (Halévy), premiere1841 152 perf.; last in 1878.*"Charles VI" (Halévy), premiere
1843 61 perf.; last in 1850.*"
Dom Sebastien " (Donizetti), premiere1843 : 33 perf.; last in 1849.*"
Jérusalem " (Giuseppe Verdi ), premiere1847 : 20 perf.; last in 1849.*"
Le prophète " (Meyerbeer), premiere1849 : 573 perf.; last in 1912.*"
Les vêpres siciliennes " (Verdi), premiere1855 : 81 perf.; last in 1864.*"
La reine de Saba " (Gounod ), premiere1862 : 15 perf.; last in 1862.*"
L'Africaine " (Meyerbeer), premiere1865 : 484 perf.; last in 1902.*"
Don Carlos " (Verdi), premiere1867 : 81 perf.; last in 1864.*"
Hamlet " (Ambroise Thomas ), premiere1868 : 384 perf.; last in 1938.*"
Le roi de Lahore " (Jules Massenet ), premiere1877 : 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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