"French Opera House Season 1919-20, Program."

ID: 5114 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division Rare Vertical File.

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"The program for the New Orleans Grand Opera Company's final season at French Opera House, 1919-1920. The company's final performance was Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots."

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French Opera House

By Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Students: Vanessa Smith-Torres, Shelby Farmer, Liesbeth Ramirez, Elizabeth Turner & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

The fabulous French Opera House dominated a vastly different Bourbon Street than the gaudy strip of today. Designed by James Gallier Jr. and erected in 1859, the Opera House became the cultural…