http://www.operadeparis.fr/cns11/live/onp/...dex.php?lang=fr

here are some infos for the extenal competition

I'm curious, on average how many dancers does the Opera hire who don't graduate from l'école de danse or le conservatoire? I can only think of one example (off the top of my head Alessio Carbone).

Not that much, but there are several of them:

Ludmilla Pagliero, Kora Dayanova, Sofia Parczen, Yannick Bittencourt, Yann Chailloux...