"Ladies in the balcony, perhaps of the French Opera House, during an unidentified carnival ball, undated."

ID: 5115 ~ Source: Image courtesy of New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division, Rare Vertical File.

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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 French Opera House opened on December 2, 1859. Operas were held in the city as early as 1791, but the opening of the French Opera House heralded a new era of grand opera in New Orleans. [1] The French Opera House was closed during the Civil War…