While the company has had numerous names over the centuries - currently: Opéra National de Paris - it endures as the world’s oldest national ballet troupe. Ballet was originally performed as an entr’acte during an operatic show, but it eventually pirouetted off into its own art form, standing beautifully on its own en pointe feet. Patron of the arts - founded the Académie d’Opéra. Sun King Louis XIV - who fancied himself as a gifted dancer as much as a benevolent The Six Ballets and Operas You Must See When in Parisĭe deux, ballet and opera have been in sync in Paris since 1669, when the
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