
It was inaugurated with Pomone by Perrin and Cambert. The Salle du Jeu de Paume was leased for five years starting in 1670 and outfitted as a theatre. The singer Monier set off for Languedoc to recruit the finest voices. The Marquis de Sourdéac became the director and Beauchamps the ballet master. Louis XIV assigned exclusive operation to Abbey Perrin and composer Robert Cambert in 1669, in order to give “opera academies or music performances in the French language the same standing as those of Italy”. The Opéra de Paris, or Paris Opera, has had several names, including “Royal Academy of Music and Dance” at its birth and later “Imperial Academy”, and its activities have been held in at least fifteen different auditoriums.
