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The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. ... *Vendôme en Espagne (5 December 1823, Opéra national de Paris) ...

The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly ...

Adam was born in Paris to Louis (1758-1848), born Johann Ludwig Adam ... By the age of 20, he was writing songs for Paris vaudeville houses and ...

Reception d'une jeune nymphe a la tour de Terpsichore. Her success was ... and voluptuous. The director of the Paris Opera was convinced that the ...

Gérard de Nerval ( ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval|lang ; May 22, 1808 – January ... Gérard Labrunie was born in Paris on May 22, 1808.Gérard Cogez, Gérard ...

Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, in ... and a cathedral; by the twelfth century Paris had become one of Europe's ...

and artistic climate (particularly within Paris), the arts markedly flourished ... the Belle Époque appear to be a time of joie de vivre (joy of living) in contrast ...

) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed throughout ... company was advertised as Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghileff.) In English ...

his retirement, to compose. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of ... son he composed another song-cycle, Chants de terra at de ciel, which deals ...

belonged to Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine de' Medici. The large collection ... found a substitute in Princess Thérèse de Lamballe. The Princess de Lamballe ...

In some forms of opera, such as Singspiel, opéra comique, operetta, and semi ... origin, Lully established an Académie Royale de Musique (Academy of Music) and ...

a play by Jean Richepin), premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1894, ... devoted to his music. In Belgium, the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau (1837-1890) ...

French-speaking city in the Western world after Paris. ==History== ... Seventy years later, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that ...