page_title: Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris
section_title: The museum
hierarchical_section_title: Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris / The museum
caption_attribution_description: www.operadeparis.fr/cns11/live/onp/Saison_2010_2011/Conve... www.bnf.fr/documents/cp_liebermann.pdf www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.rol... Né à Zurich en 1910, mort à Paris en 1999, Rolf Liebermann fut l’une des personnalités musicales majeures du XXe siècle. Compositeur, chef d’orchestre, metteur en scène, il dirigea successivement les Opéras de Hambourg (1959-1972) et de Paris (1973-1980). Au Palais Garnier, son nom est attaché, entre autres, aux Noces de Figaro dans la mise en scène de Giorgio Strehler (production reprise cette saison) ou à la création mondiale de la version en trois actes de Lulu dirigée par Pierre Boulez. A l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance, le Staatsoper de Hambourg s’associe à la Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra et à l’Opéra de Paris pour rendre hommage à cette personnalité d’exception. COMISSARIAT&#160;: Mathis Auclair conservateur en chef à la Bibliothèque-musée de l'Opéra Christophe Ghristi directeur de la dramaturgie à l'Opéra national de Paris Martine Kahane directrice du Centre national du costume de scène de Moulins Aurélien Poidevin attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche à l'Université ParisVIII
context_page_description: The Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris is a library and museum of the Paris Opera and is located in the 9th arrondissement at 8 rue Scribe, Paris, France. It is no longer managed by the Opera, but instead is part of the Music Department of the National Library of France. The Paris Opera Library-Museum is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
context_section_description: The modern museum has five rooms which display three centuries of the Paris Opera's history through paintings, costumes, drawings of scenery, and scale models of set designs. Altogether, the museum conserves 8 500 objects.
  At the top of the stairs which lead to the museum is a bronze by the sculptor Jacques Gestalder, which depicts the dancer Alexandre Kalioujny in mid-leap during a performance of Michel Fokine's ballet Les danses polovtsiennes, which is based on the Polovtsian Dances of Borodin's Prince Igor.
  Visitors are also able to see shelves of books and scores, which are protected by grilles. These materials include fifteen thousand scores and thirty thousand librettos and are accessible to the public on days when the museum is not open for tours. The museum's collections are too extensive to be displayed all at one time, as they consist of approximately 8,500 objects, including 2,500 models of sets, 500 set design drawings, and 3,000 pieces of costume jewelry.
  The Library-Museum has organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1992, in collaboration with the BnF and others. Some of the items in the collection have also been displayed at the Musée d'Orsay.
caption: Musée de l'Opéra (2011).
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