Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

The first performance of the four works was on 7 April 1898, at the Grande Opéra, Paris.

He also sought to incorporate some of the panache of the Paris Opéra designed by Charles Garnier.

* 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Nevertheless, she scored a real triumph in 1850, when she made her operatic debut at the Paris Opéra performing the role of " Fidès " in Meyerbeer's Le prophète, which had been created the year before by no less than Pauline Viardot.

The Palais Garnier of the Paris Opéra, one of the world's most famous opera house s.

51, a work commissioned by Serge Lifar, who had been appointed maitre de ballet at the Paris Opéra.

In 1986 Nespolo had the possibility of designing the stage sets for Ferruccio Busoni ’ s opera Turandot at Connecticut Grand Opera, Stamford, the first of several theatre works he made in the following years, such as the sets and costumes for Paisiello's Don Chisciotte at the Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in 1990 and for Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore, a production for the Rome Opera, the Paris Opera and the Opéra de Lausanne, Liège and Metz in 1995.

* November 22 – Maurice Ravel's Boléro premieres at the Paris Opéra.

* March 3 – Bizet ’ s Carmen is first performed at the Opéra Comique, Paris.

It was commissioned and produced by the Théâtre Impérial de l ’ Opéra ( Paris Opera ) and premiered at the company's theatre, the Salle Le Peletier, on 11 March 1867.

After the première and before leaving Paris, Verdi authorised the Opéra authorities to end Act 4, Scene 2 with the death of Posa ( thus omitting the insurrection scene ) if they thought fit.

On 18 November 1866 Verdi wrote to Giovanni Ricordi, offering the Milan publisher the Italian rights, but insisting that the opera " must be performed in its entirety as it will be performed for the first time at the Paris Opéra.

* R 1. 94 Proserpine ( 28. 3. 1803 Paris, Opéra )

Wagner was writing Rienzi and hatched a plan to flee his creditors in Riga, escape to Paris via London and make his fortune by putting Rienzi on to the stage of the Paris Opéra.

These were composed for an audition at the Paris Opéra, along with the sketch of the plot.

However, after a disastrous staging of Tannhäuser at the Paris Opéra, Wagner offered the work to the Karlsruhe opera in 1861.

The opera was premiered at the Opéra National de Paris in 2005 and Viola's video work was subsequently shown as LOVE / DEATH The Tristan Project at the Haunch of Venison Gallery and St Olave's School, London, in 2006.

The Rimsky-Korsakov edition of 1908 premiered on 19 May 1908 at the Paris Opéra.

) He began to take advantage of the institutions he now had access to in the city, including his first visit to the Paris Opéra, where he saw Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck, a composer whom he came to admire above all, jointly alongside Ludwig van Beethoven.

He also arranged the French national anthem La Marseillaise and composed an overture to Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was the first of his pieces to play at the Paris Opéra, but an hour before the performance began, quite ironically, a sudden storm created the worst rain in Paris for 50 years, meaning the performance was almost deserted.

Benvenuto Cellini was premiered at the Paris Opéra on September 10, but was a failure due to a hostile audience.

In 1841, Berlioz wrote recitatives for a production of Weber's Der Freischütz at the Paris Opéra and also orchestrated Weber's Invitation to the Dance to add ballet music to it ( he titled the ballet L ' Invitation à la valse, and the original piano piece has often been mistitled as a result ).

Count Raymond VII of Toulouse finally signed the Treaty of Paris in 1229, in which he retained much of his lands for life, but his daughter, married to Count Alfonso of Poitou, produced him no heir and so the County of Toulouse went to the King of France.

The Allies finally stopped the advance northeast of Paris at the Marne River ( 5 – 12 September 1914 ).

A Koenigsegg CC prototype was first publicized in 1996, while the full carbon fiber production prototype was finally unveiled at the 2000 Paris Motor Show.

In the season 1844 – 1845 she was engaged in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre ; later, in 1846 – 47, she toured the principal cities of Central Europe, finally reaching London and Paris, where she settled permanently.

In the event, he did not wait and went instead to Paris and finally became a canon regular of the cloister of St. Rufus monastery near Arles.

A major network of tubes in Paris was in use until 1984, when it was finally abandoned in favor of computers and fax machines.

Led by Mikhail Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly, the Russian army ousted Napoleon from the country and drove through Europe in the war of the Sixth Coalition, finally entering Paris.

Yeats ' friendship with Gonne persisted, and, in Paris, in 1908, they finally consummated their relationship.

These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.

By 1902, Durkheim had finally achieved his goal of attaining a prominent position in Paris when he became the chair of education at the Sorbonne.

He subsequently occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior, Prime Minister, Mayor of Paris, and finally President of the French Republic.

Another famous set of six tapestries of Dame à la licorne (" Lady with the unicorn ") in the Musée de Cluny, Paris, were also woven in the Southern Netherlands before 1500, and show the five senses ( the gateways to temptation ) and finally Love (" A mon seul desir " the legend reads ), with unicorns featured in each piece.

It was finally arranged by the allies that their envoys at Paris should fix the date for the assembling of a peace congress, and that, in the meantime, the war against Prussia should be vigorously prosecuted.

She studied at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm in 1930 – 33, the Graphic School of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1933 – 1937 and finally at L ' École d ' Adrien Holy and L ' École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938.

In 1847, he left this job and finally settled in Paris, where he was now becoming celebrated as a leader of innovation.

The Archives Nationales in Paris preserves only the text of a shorter document modified by concessions extracted from the King by the clergy and the Parlement of Paris, which delayed ten months before finally signing and setting seals to the document in 1599.

Later, in the care of the Abbot of Dumonteil he began his education in Paris, finally entering the École Polytechnique in 1798.

The decision was condemned by several French bishops ; by Louis Antoine de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris ; by the theological faculties at Leuven, Douai, and eventually Paris ; and, finally, in 1703, by Pope Clement XI.

Beset on all sides by French ambushes and plagued by disease and starvation, John of Gaunt and his raiders battled their way through Champagne, east of Paris, into Burgundy, across the Massif Central, and finally down into Dordogne.

" It had long been believed that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the French Blue until confirmation finally happened when a three-dimensional leaden model of the latter was rediscovered in the archives of the French Natural History Museum in Paris in 2005.

The schism finally erupted when the future members of the radical Lettrists disrupted a Charlie Chaplin press conference for Limelight at the Hôtel Ritz Paris.

* 1939: After floundering for years, even producing his fins in his own flat in Paris, De Corlieu finally starts mass production of his invention in France.

Following the disbandment of the organization, and the execution of several of its members, the OAS chaplain, Georges Grasset, organized the flight of OAS members, from a route going from Paris to Francoist Spain and finally to Argentina.