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Article: L'Opera a Paris au temps de Louis XIV: histoire d'un theatre.
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The subtitle "histoire d'un theatre" explains the nature of this book. It is not about music or drama and only tangentially about spectacle. Rather, it is the history of an institution - the Academie royale de musique, known informally as "the Opera" - from its beginnings in 1669 to the death of Louis XIV in 1715. Though officially privately owned and self-supporting, the Paris Opera owed its existence and much of its physical property to the king; its public fortunes rose and fell according to royal tastes and preoccupations. On the other hand, the Opera could squelch all competition: having been granted a monopoly by the king, it controlled operatic activity not only in ...
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