L’Académie royale de musique de Paris was founded in Paris in 1669 as the royal academy for staged opera and ballet, later developing into the institutional body commonly recognised as the Paris Opera. Its repertoire and style began in the French Baroque operatic and ballet tradition and expanded through the 18th and 19th centuries to include grand and Romantic operatic forms and later modern operatic practices, reflecting the changing theatrical and musical culture of France.
