The Women’s Opera Guild supports Opera in the city.

You probably think of Jazz when you think of New Orleans, but opera was first performed in the United States down on Bourbon street.

On the morning of December 4th, 1919, the French Opera House burned to the ground. The insurance policy was not enough to cover rebuilding the structure so the corner sat vacant for about 40 years as people waited in hopes that an opera house could be resurrected on this site.

In the 1960s a hotel was built on this site and today this hotel is known as the Four Points Sheraton.