19 Facts About Paris Opera

1. Paris Opera left Paris Opera to try her luck elsewhere in France and she succeeded with strong performance that eventually saw her return to Paris.

2. Paris Opera is a major rail, highway, and air transport hub.

3. Paris Opera hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.

4. University of Paris Opera, founded in the 12th century, is often called the Sorbonne after one of its original medieval colleges.

5. Paris Opera is the departement with the highest proportion of highly educated people.

6. In 1911, the dance hall Olympia Paris Opera invented the grand staircase as a settling for its shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergere.

7. Paris Opera hosts one of the largest science museums in Europe, the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette.

8. The Golden Age of the School of Paris Opera ended between the two world wars.

9. Paris Opera was central to the development of Romanticism in art, with painters such as Gericault.

10. Majority of Paris Opera's salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements.

11. Paris Opera has a typical Western European oceanic climate which is affected by the North Atlantic Current.

12. Paris Opera is located in northern central France, in a north-bending arc of the river Seine whose crest includes two islands, the Ile Saint-Louis and the larger Ile de la Cite, which form the oldest part of the city.

13. The first railway line to Paris Opera opened in 1837, beginning a new period of massive migration from the provinces to the city.

14. Paris Opera was the financial capital of continental Europe, the primary European centre of book publishing and fashion and the manufacture of fine furniture and luxury goods.

15. Paris Opera was the centre of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity known as the Age of Enlightenment.

16. Paris Opera hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

17. Paris Opera hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros.

18. In 1939, the Paris Opera was merged with the Paris Opera-Comique and the company name became Reunion des Theatres Lyriques Nationaux.

19. Paris Opera believed that the prevailing opinion of the time that the French language was fundamentally unmusical was completely incorrect.