The following list gives number of performances of grand opera at the Paris Opera from premiere to 1962, (as given by Stéphane Wolff, Albert Soubies and other sources). Work Premiere Number of performances Last performance La muette de Portici, (Auber) 1828 489 1882 Guillaume Tell, (Rossini) 1829 911 1930 Robert le diable (Meyerbeer) 1831 751 1892; revived in 1984 Gustave III (Auber) 1833 168 1853 La Juive (Fromental Halévy) 1835 534 1934; revived in 2007 Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) 1836 1120 1936; revived in 2018 Stradella (Niedermeyer) 1837 1840 (in 3-act form) Guido et Ginevra (Halévy) 1838 revived in 1840 (in 4-act form); revived again in 1870 Le lac des fées (Auber) 1839 30 Charlton, David. The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, p. 187, available online at Google Books. La favorite (originally titled L'ange de Nisida) (Donizetti) 1840 Les martyrs (French version of Poliuto) (Donizetti) 1840 20 1842 La reine de Chypre (Halévy) 1841 152 1878 Charles VI (Halévy) 1843 61 1850 Dom Sébastien (Donizetti) 1843 33 1849 Marie Stuart (Niedermeyer) 1844 1846; revived in 2002 Jérusalem (Verdi) 1847 20 1849 Le prophète (Meyerbeer) 1849 573 1912 L'enfant prodigue (Auber) 1850Le Juif errant (Halévy)1852491853 Les vêpres siciliennes (Verdi) 1855 81 1864 La reine de Saba (Gounod) 1862 15 1862 L'Africaine (Meyerbeer) 1865 484 1902 Don Carlos (Verdi) 1867 81 1864 Hamlet (Thomas) 1868 384 1938 Le roi de Lahore (Massenet) 1877 57 1879 Polyeucte (Gounod) 1878 29 1879 Henry VIII (Saint-Saëns) 1883 87 1919 Le Cid (Massenet) 1885 152 1919 Patrie! (Paladilhe) 1886 93 1919
References Soubies, Albert. Soixante-sept Ans a L'Opéra en une Page, 1826–1893; Paris, 1893; Wolff, Stephane. L'Opéra au Palais Garnier 1875–1962; Paris n.d. but probably 1963