Opéra d'Avignon, Opera house in Place de l'Horloge, Avignon, France.

The Opéra d'Avignon, also called Opéra Grand Avignon, stands on Place de l'Horloge with a cream-and-grey stone facade in three tiers. Three round-headed arches at street level carry the words OPERA and THEATRE above glass doors, with a balustraded balcony and three blue-paned windows above, and a large arch framing a THEATRE panel under a pediment of carved figures. The interior is a Théâtre à l'italienne.

Avignon's municipal council commissioned a theatre here in 1824 from city architects Ange-Alexandre Bondon and Alexandre Frary, clearing the ruins of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Laurent beside the Hôtel de Ville. It opened on 30 October 1825 and burned down on 26 January 1846. Théodore Charpentier of Lyon and Léon Feuchère of Nîmes rebuilt it on the same spot in 1846–1847; it was listed as a monument historique in 1988.

The facade carries relief busts of King René and Petrarch by sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Jules Klagmann, and statues of Molière and Corneille stand in front; the originals, weakened by weather, were replaced by copies by Jean-Pierre Gras and moved to the town hall of Le Thor. Since 1978 the interior has followed the Italian-style theatre layout.

The theater is near the Palais des Papes and easily accessible on foot from the old town center. Visitors can check information at the box office or online to plan their visit around performances.

The statues of Molière and Corneille on the facade are not the originals: the first pair, carved by Jean-Louis and Joseph Brian, did not withstand the material chosen, so Jean-Pierre Gras remade them and the originals were moved to the town hall of Le Thor.