The Théâtre Déjazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple (popularly known as the ' boulevard du crime ') in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris , France. It was founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X. It was then closed down and not reopened until 1851. At that time it became a café-concert called the Folies-Mayer, on the site of a former jeu de paume (tennis court). It was converted into the Folies-Concertantes in 1853, and reopened as the Folies-Nouvelles on 21 October 1854.
10-404: Under the direction of the operetta composer Hervé from 1854 to 1856, it became a theatre for one-act spectacles-concerts with premieres of Hervé's La Perle de l'Alsace (1854), Un Compositeur toqué (1854), La Fine fleur de l'Andalousie (1854), Agamemnon, ou Le Chameau à deux bosses (1856), and Vadé au cabaret (1856). Several of Auguste Pilati 's works received their first performance at
20-477: A situation that he turned to advantage years later, in his most famous work, Mam'zelle Nitouche . Before he became musical director of the Théâtre du Palais Royal in 1851, he composed a one-act tableau grotesque , a burlesque on Don Quixote titled Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança . It was conceived as a vehicle for the actor Desiré , who was short and plump, accompanied by the tall and gangling Hervé, as he
30-663: The Bicêtre Hospital, and these gained the notice of producers. Thus, Hervé was the founder of a new era of French operettas. Through his Folies-Concertantes , a small theater stage he took over in 1854 and for which he wrote many works, he became the forerunner of the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens of Jacques Offenbach , whose early efforts he produced at his theatre, renovated as the Folies-Nouvelles. Many of Hervé's early one act pieces are topical skits satirizing current events and were never revived. The restrictive license of
40-574: The Folies-Concertantes permitted only spectacles-concerts , with no more than two characters, in a single act, stringencies imposed on Offenbach as well, but which encouraged Hervé to experiment with genres, before more flexible rules were established in the following decade. A jealous rivalry soon developed between Hervé and Offenbach, which was only patched up in 1878, when Hervé sang in a revival of Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers . He died in Paris at
50-532: The Théâtre Déjazet again on 17 September 1880. The director of the theatre is Jean Bouquin. From 2009 to 2011, the theatre hosted the weekly seminar of the psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller . 48°51′58″N 2°21′52″E / 48.86611°N 2.36444°E / 48.86611; 2.36444 Herv%C3%A9 (composer) Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (30 June 1825 – 4 November 1892), who used
60-623: The Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles, including Jean le Sot (1856), Une Devinette (1856), Trois Dragons (1857), L'Ile de Calypso (1857), Peau d'âne (1858), Ignace le retors (1858) One of Jacques Offenbach 's first works, the anthropophagie musicale Oyayaye, ou La Reine des îles was also performed there (1855), and two opérettes , Delibes 's Deux sous de charbon (1856), and Lecocq 's Huis-Clos (1859). The mime Paul Legrand also regularly performed there between 1853 and 1859. The Folies-Nouvelles closed on 1 September 1859. It reopened with
70-492: The name Théâtre Déjazet on 27 September 1859 under the direction of the actress Virginie Déjazet . She managed it with her son Joseph Eugène Déjazet, until 1870. The theatre closed on 1 June 1870, becoming the Folies-Nouvelles again in 1871 and back to Théâtre Déjazet in 1872. It was known as the Troisième Théâtre Français from 1876 to 1880, when it reverted to Folies-Nouvelles for two months, before finally becoming
80-496: The pseudonym Hervé ( French pronunciation: [ɛʁve] ), was a French singer, composer , librettist , conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman , following Reynaldo Hahn , credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris. Hervé was born in Houdain near Arras . Part Spanish by birth, he became a choirboy at the Church of Saint-Roch, Paris . His musical promise
90-457: Was noted, and he was enrolled in the Conservatoire and studied with Daniel Auber , and by the age of fifteen was serving as organist at Bicêtre Hospital and a stage vocalist in provincial theatres, where he trained his fine tenor voice. He won a competition in 1845 for the prestigious Paris post of organist at the Church of Saint-Eustache , while he doubled with his theatrical music career,
100-401: Was now calling himself, in order to distance his two personas . It was staged at Adolphe Adam 's Opéra-National , and achieved a great success in 1848, in spite of the distracting revolution : furthermore, according to the composer Reynaldo Hahn , the farcical pot-pourri was "simply the first French operetta ". He had also composed musical entertainments to keep the patients entertained at
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