Salle Le Peletier

Painting of the Grande Salle of the theatre during a performance of a ballet (1864)

The Salle Le Peletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire in 1873. The theatre was designed and constructed by the architect François Debret on the site of the former Hôtel de Choiseul. Due to the many changes in government and management during the theatre's existence, it had a number of different official names, the most important of which were: Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique (1821–1848), Opéra-Théâtre de la Nation (1848–1850), Théâtre de l'Académie Nationale de Musique (1850–1852), Théâtre de l'Académie Impériale de Musique (1852–1854), Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra (1854–1870), and Théâtre National de l'Opéra (1870–1873).

Salle Le Peletier Media

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  The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, the official title of the Paris Opera ca. 1821
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  Performance of Charles-Simon Catel's opera Les bayadères for the inauguration of the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier on 16 August 1821

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  The ballet Giselle during a state visit of Tsar Alexander II (4 June 1867)
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  The Principal Ballerinas of the Paris Opera (clockwise from top left): Lise Noblet, Marie Taglioni, Mlle Julia [de Varennes], Alexis Dupont (née Félicité Noblet, she used the name of her husband Alexis Dupont), Amélie Legallois, and Pauline Montessu, premiers sujets in 1831.

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  Lithograph depicting many famous dancers and their patrons in the Foyer de la Danse (1841)
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  Fire of 29 October 1873
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  View of the ruins of the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier after the fire of 28–29 October 1873 as published in Le Monde Illustré

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  Perspective view of the façade on the Rue Le Peletier (ca. 1870)
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  Lithograph of the Grande Salle (1854)

References

Notes

Sources

• Barbier, Patrick (1995). Opera in Paris, 1800–1850: A Lively History. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 9780931340833.
• Fauser, Annegret, editor; Everist, Mark, editor (2009). Music, theater, and cultural transfer. Paris, 1830–1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226239262.
• Loewenberg, Alfred (1978). Annals of Opera 1597–1940 (third edition, revised). Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9780874718515.
• Mead, Christopher Curtis (1991). Charles Garnier's Paris Opera. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262132756.
• Pitou, Spire (1983). The Paris Opéra: an encyclopedia of operas, ballets, composers, and performers (3 volumes). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwod Press. ISBN 9780686460367.
• Simeone, Nigel (2000). Paris: a musical gazateer. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300080537.

Other websites

• Opéra National de Paris
• Notes on the Académie Royale de Musique from the Scholarly Societies Project Archived 2006-01-04 at the Wayback Machine