Académie royale de musique

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opera company royal institution theatre company

The Académie royale de musique was the principal royal opera institution of France under the Ancien Régime, serving as the state-sponsored center for French opera and musical performance in Paris.

Aliases (5)

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	opera company → royal institution → theatre company →
alsoKnownAs	Opéra de Paris → Royal Academy of Music (France) →
charterGrantedBy	Louis XIV →
charterGrantedTo	Pierre Perrin →
charterTransferTo	Jean-Baptiste Lully →
country	Kingdom of France →
dissolved	1791 → French Revolution →
era	Ancien Régime →
foundedBy	Jean-Baptiste Lully → Louis XIV →
genre	French Baroque opera → French Classical opera → ballet → grand opera → opera → opéra-ballet → tragédie lyrique →
headquarters	Paris →
inception	1669 →
locatedIn	France → Palais-Royal → Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris → Salle Le Peletier → Salle de la Bouteille → Salle des Machines → Salle du Palais-Royal → Théâtre Feydeau → Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin → Théâtre des Arts →
location	Paris →
mainActivity	musical performance → production of French opera → staging of ballets →
notableDirector	André Campra → Christoph Willibald Gluck → Jean-Baptiste Lully → Jean-Philippe Rameau → Luigi Cherubini →
notableWorkPremiered	Armide (Lully) → Atys (Lully) → Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau) → Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) → Les Indes galantes (Rameau) →
officialLanguage	French →
operatedBy	French crown → state of France →
originalName	Académie d’Opéra →
patron	Louis XIV → Louis XV → Louis XVI →
reorganizedAs	Théâtre de la République et des Arts →
significance	model for French operatic tradition → principal royal opera institution of France under the Ancien Régime → state-sponsored center for French opera in Paris →
significantBuilding	Palais Garnier →
successor	Paris Opera →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Académie royale de musique ("Royal Academy of Music (France)") →	alsoKnownAs
Palais Garnier ("Opéra de Paris") →	formerName
Louis XIV of France →	founded
Paris Opera Ballet ("Académie Royale de Musique") →	hasPrecursor
Académie royale de danse →	influenced
Jean-Baptiste Lully ("Académie Royale de Musique") →	memberOf
Académie royale de musique ("Académie d’Opéra") →	originalName
Louis Dieudonné →	patronOf
Académie des Beaux-Arts ("Académie de musique") →	replaces