The Opéra de Dijon is an opera company and arts organization in Dijon, France. It administers both the Grand Théâtre de Dijon and the Auditorium de Dijon which are its main performance venues. In addi
The Grand Théâtre de Dijon, built in 1828 and one of Opéra de Dijon's two main performance venues
Jacques Cellerier's 1787 plan for Dijon's first purpose-built theatre and opera house
The Auditorium de Dijon, built in 1998
Bust of the Dijon-born composer Jean-Philippe Rameau by Caffieri. Opéra de Dijon staged a rare revival of his opera Dardanus in 2009.
Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist of the late Baroque era. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-
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…of Káťa Kabanová, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Brundibár, and Janáček's song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared. The 250th anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, who was born in Dijon, was marked with productions of his Castor et Pollux and a double bill of his opéra-ballets Daphnis et Eglé and La Naissance…
Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques Aved, 1728
The Cathedral of Saint-Bénigne, Dijon
Bust of Rameau by Caffieri, 1760
Jean-Philippe Rameau in the timeline of French Baroque Composers.