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Opéra Bastille

The Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in the , France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux, it became the main facility of the Paris National Opera, France's principal opera company…
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Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: opera house
  • Also known as: “Bastille Opera” and “Opera Bastille”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ruins of Bastille and Coulée verte René-Dumont.

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in , known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. is situated 190 metres northwest of Opéra Bastille.

Park
Photo: jean-louis Zimmermann, CC BY 2.0.
The or Promenade plantée René-Dumont is a 4.7 km elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the , . It was inaugurated in 1993. is situated 240 metres south of Opéra Bastille.

Church
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France. is situated 1½ km west of Opéra Bastille.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Faubourg Saint-Antoine and 11th arrondissement.

Suburb
Photo: Jean-François Gornet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The was one of the traditional suburbs of , France. It grew up to the east of the around the abbey of , and ran along the Rue du .

Photo: ParisSharing, CC BY 2.0.
The is home to two quite different but equally blossoming centres of Parisian nightlife. The streets just northwest of Place de la Bastille are full of little bars which attract a mix of young suburban Parisians, expats, and foreigners.

Photo: Björn Söderqvist, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.

Opéra Bastille

Latitude
48.85149° or 48° 51′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.37066° or 2° 22′ 14″ east
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Inception
1989
Open location code
8FW4V92C+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 15219557
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6452879
Wiki­data ID
Q638423
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Opéra Bastille” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բաստիլի օպերա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bastiliya Operası”
  • Catalan: “La Bastille de París”
  • Catalan: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Catalan: “Òpera Bastille”
  • Catalan: “Òpera de la Bastilla”
  • Catalan: “Opéra de la Bastille”
  • Chinese: “巴士底歌剧院”
  • Chinese: “巴士底歌劇院”
  • Czech: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Danish: “Bastilleoperaen”
  • Dutch: “Opera Bastille”
  • Dutch: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوپيرا باستيل”
  • Esperanto: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Esperanto: “Operejo Bastille”
  • Estonian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Finnish: “Bastiljin ooppera”
  • Finnish: “Opera Bastille”
  • Finnish: “Opéra Bastille”
  • French: “Opera Bastille”
  • French: “opéra Bastille”
  • French: “Opéra Bastille”
  • French: “Opéra de la Bastille”
  • French: “Opéra National de Paris-Bastille”
  • French: “Opéra-Bastille”
  • Galician: “Ópera da Bastilla”
  • Georgian: “ბასტილიის ოპერის თეატრი”
  • German: “Bastille-Oper”
  • German: “Opera Bastille”
  • German: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Greek: “Όπερα Βαστίλης”
  • Greek: “Όπερα της Βαστίλης”
  • Hebrew: “אופרה בסטיליה”
  • Hebrew: “האופרה בסטיל”
  • Hungarian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Indonesian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Italian: “Opera Bastille”
  • Italian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Japanese: “オペラ・バスチーユ”
  • Japanese: “オペラ・バスティーユ”
  • Japanese: “バスチーユ・オペラ”
  • Japanese: “バスティーユ・オペラ”
  • Japanese: “バスティーユ・オペラ座”
  • Japanese: “バスティーユ歌劇場”
  • Japanese: “新オペラ座”
  • Korean: “오페라 바스티유”
  • Latin: “Theatrum Operaticum Bastillae”
  • Malay: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Norwegian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Persian: “اپرا بستی”
  • Persian: “اپرای باستیل”
  • Polish: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Portuguese: “Ópera da Bastilha”
  • Romanian: “Opera Bastille”
  • Russian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Russian: “Опера Бастилии”
  • Russian: “Опера Бастилия”
  • Russian: “Опера Бастиль”
  • Serbian: “Опера Бастиља”
  • Slovenian: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Spanish: “Opera de la Bastilla”
  • Spanish: “Ópera de la Bastilla”
  • Swedish: “Opera Bastille”
  • Swedish: “Opéra Bastille”
  • Turkish: “Bastille Opera Binası”
  • Ukrainian: “Опера Бастилія”
  • Urdu: “اوپیرا باستیل”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà hát Opéra Bastille”
  • Vietnamese: “Opéra Bastille”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Opéra Bastille”. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.