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first French opera

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    In opera: Early opera in France and England

    Pomone (1671) by Robert Cambert, on a pastoral libretto by Pierre Perrin involving ballet, spectacle, and machinery, is commonly called the first French opera. Its premiere almost certainly inaugurated the Académie Royale de Musique (now the Paris Opéra) on March 3, 1671. Only the overture,…

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