Online dictionary of France travel and tourism: Opera Bastille

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Opera Bastille

French words: Opéra Bastille
alternative words: Bastille Opera
keywords: building , paris , theater
related topics: Paris Opera
related web sites: http://www.opera-de-paris.fr , http://www.parisrama.com/thematiques/thematiquebastille.htm
explanation: In order to develop poor eastern Paris districts and also to commemorate 200th anniversary of French revolution, socialist French president, Francois Mitterand decided in 1982 to build a modern opera theater at the place of a closed railway station, on the Bastille place. Its construction began in 1984, following the architecture plan of Carlos Ott, and achieved in 1989. Now Opera Bastille plays lyric dramas and the old Opera Garnier, ballets.