La Péniche Opéra is a small French opera company which performs on a

barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...

. When performing in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, the barge is moored opposite of No.46, quai de Loire, in the 19th district of Paris. It was founded by director Mireille Larroche, Ivan Matiakh, Béatrice Cramoix and Pierre Danais in 1982, and became recognised, and subsidised as a ''Compagnie Lyrique Nationale'' in 1998. The "barge opera" was in residence at the Paris

Opéra Comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...

from 1998 to 2007 but has travelled by canal to be associated artist of the Opéra de Toulon from 2003 to 2007. Since 9 March 2016, it's being managed by Geoffroy Jourdain and Olivier Michel, who changed the institution's brand to POP.

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French opera companies Floating theatres Musical groups established in 1982 1982 establishments in France {{opera-company-stub