The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire in 1873. The theatre was designed and constructed by the architect François Debre
The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, the official title of the Paris Opera c. 1821
Performance of Charles-Simon Catel's opera Les bayadères for the inauguration of the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier on 16 August 1821
The ballet Giselle during a state visit of Tsar Alexander II (4 June 1867)
The Principal Ballerinas of the Paris Opera (clockwise from top left): Lise Noblet, Marie Taglioni, Mlle Julia [de Varennes], Alexis Dupont (née Félicité Noblet, she used the name of her husband Alexis Dupont), Amélie Legallois, and Pauline Montessu, premiers sujets in 1831.
The Paris Opera Ballet is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera. It is the oldest national ballet company, and many European and international ballet companies can trace
Louis XIV as Apollo in the Ballet Royal de la Nuit (1653)
Adelaïde Simonet as the Princess in the pantomime-ballet Ninette à la cour [fr], first produced by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1778 with choreography by Maximilien Gardel, as performed in London in 1781