Réunion des Opéras de France
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The Réunion des Opéras de France, commonly known as the ROF, is the professional association of opera companies in France. It provides information resources for the opera sector and the public, supports its member companies through meetings, and promotes the art form.

The association was founded in 1964 as the Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Municipaux de France (RTLMF), changed its name to the Réunion des Théâtre Lyriques de France (RTLF) in 1991, finally getting its current name of the Réunion des Opéras de France (ROF) in 2003.

List of members

As of December 2011, the ROF membership comprised 25 opera houses, lyric festivals and theatres:

  • Angers-Nantes Opéra
    Angers-Nantes Opéra
    The Angers-Nantes Opéra was created in January 2003 through the fusion of the opera companies of Angers and of Nantes, in order to give fresh impetus to the provision of opera throughout western France....

  • Opéra-Théâtre d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
  • Opéra National de Bordeaux
  • Théâtre de Caen
  • Opéra de Dijon
  • Opéra de Lille
    Opéra de Lille
    The Opéra de Lille is a theater-style neo-classical opera house, built from 1907 to 1913 and officially inaugurated in 1923.In 1903 fire destroyed the previous Lille opera house, which had been designed by Lille architect Michael Joseph Lequeux and built in 1785. For the replacement city officials...

  • Opéra de Limoges
  • Opéra National de Lyon
    Opéra National de Lyon
    Opéra National de Lyon is an opera company in Lyon, France which performs in the Nouvel Opéra, a modernized version in 1993 of the original 1831 opera house.The inaugural performance of François-Adrien Boïeldieu's La Dame blanche was given on 1 July 1831...

  • Opéra de Marseille
    Opéra de Marseille
    L’Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France. In 1685, the city was the second in France after Bordeaux to have an opera house which was erected on a tennis court....

  • Opéra de Massy
  • Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole
  • Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
  • Opéra national de Lorraine
    Opéra national de Lorraine
    Opéra national de Lorraine is an opera company and opera house located in the city of Nancy in the French province of Lorraine. Formerly named the Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine, it was given the status of "national opera" in 2006....

  • Opéra de Nice
    Opéra de Nice
    The Opéra de Nice is the principal opera venue in Nice, France.The théâtre municipal of Nice was inaugurated 7 February 1885 with a performance of Verdi's Aida. In 1902 the théâtre municipal became the Opéra de Nice.-References:...

  • Chorégies d'Orange
    Chorégies d'Orange
    The Chorégies d'Orange is a summer opera festival held each year in August in Orange located about seventy miles northwest of Marseille in southern France...

  • Opéra national de Paris
  • Théâtre national de l'Opéra Comique
  • Opéra de Reims
  • Opéra de Rennes
  • Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie
  • Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne
  • Opéra national du Rhin
    Opéra national du Rhin
    LOpéra national du Rhin is an opera company which performs in Alsace, eastern France, and which includes the Opéra in Strasbourg, the company's ballet in Mulhouse , and the "Opéra Studio" , a training centre for young singers, in Colmar...

  • Opéra Toulon Provence Méditerranée
  • Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse
  • Opéra de Tours
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