Charles-Antoine Cambon was a French scenographer, theatrical production designer, who acquired international renown in the Romantic Era.
Undated photograph of Cambon by Bernier
Set design for Act V, Scene 2 of La reine de Chypre (1841)
Collaboration with Humanité René Philastre for Les Burgraves, Act II (première production, 1843)
La Esmeralda, Act III, Scene 1
Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras. The original productions consisted of spectacular design and stage effects with plots normally based on or around dramatic historic events. The term is particularly applied to certain productions of the Paris Opéra from the late 1820s to around 1860; 'grand opéra' has sometimes been used to denote the Paris Opéra itself.
Degas (1871): Ballet of the Nuns from Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (1831); one of the earliest sensations of grand opera
Set design by Francesco Bagnara for act 1 of Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer Le Prophète set design for the final conflagration by Philippe Chaperon
Le Cid, Massanet, ballet at Le Cid's camp. Set by Rubé, Chaperon and Jambon.