The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré , mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles .
10-829: After the theatre on the rue de Chartres burned down in 1838, the Vaudeville temporarily based itself on boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle before in 1841 setting up in the Salle de la Bourse on the Place de la Bourse in the 2e arrondissement . This building was demolished in 1869. Eugène Labiche and Henri Meilhac put on several of their works there, and it also hosted Jules Verne 's play Onze jours de siège (1861). Other writers whose works were put on there were Edmond Gondinet , Alexandre Bisson , Théophile Marion Dumersan , Jean-François Bayard , Narcisse Fournier and Gaston Arman de Caillavet . In 1852, La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
20-488: Is an opéra comique in two acts to a French-language libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges . The music, by Ferdinand Hérold , was left unfinished at his death, and the work was completed by his deputy at the Opéra-Comique , Fromental Halévy . Hérold had only written the overture, four numbers and the beginning of the act 1 finale. The plot, elements of which were later reworked by Halévy and Saint-Georges in
30-755: The Opéra-Comique , which had been bankrupted by the exorbitant rents at the Salle Ventadour , left that theatre and on 24 September 1832 opened at the Salle de la Bourse, which was often still referred to as the Théâtre des Nouveautés. The Opéra-Comique remained at the theatre for almost eight years, and the premieres of Hérold's Ludovic and Le pré aux clercs , Adam's Le chalet and Le postillon de Lonjumeau , Halévy's L'éclair , Auber's L'ambassadrice and Le domino noir , and Donizetti's La fille du régiment were all given there. The company's last performance in
40-556: The Paris Bourse , hence the name. It was successively the home of the Théâtre des Nouveautés (1827–1832), the Opéra-Comique (1832–1840), and the Théâtre du Vaudeville (1840–1869). The theatre was demolished in 1869. The Salle de la Bourse was built to the designs of the French architect François Debret for the first Théâtre des Nouveautés , which opened there on 1 March 1827. The founder
50-476: The Independent Theatre movement. On 20–21 May 1891, Paul Fort 's Théâtre d'Art presented a benefit for Paul Verlaine and Paul Gauguin , consisting of a program of poetry readings and five short plays, including, most notably, the premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck 's Symbolist landmark work Intruder . In 1927, this building was acquired by Paramount and transformed into the cinema it is today, under
60-578: The name the Paramount Opéra then (from 31 October 2007) the Gaumont Opéra . It has seven auditoria and is served by Opéra on the Paris Metro . 48°52′16.5″N 2°20′1″E / 48.871250°N 2.33361°E / 48.871250; 2.33361 Salle de la Bourse The Salle de la Bourse was a Parisian theatre located on the rue Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement , across from
70-564: The opera Le val d'Andorre (1847), centres on misplaced alliance, love, forced conscription, flight, pardon, and marriage. Chopin wrote a set of variations in B-flat major, Variations brillantes , Op. 12 (1833), on the act 1 aria "Je vends des scapulaires" (I sell scapulars ). The opera was premiered by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse on 16 May 1833, five months after Hérold's death. It achieved 70 performances by
80-527: The theatre was on 30 April 1840, after which it moved to the new (second) Salle Favart . The Théâtre du Vaudeville then moved into the Salle de la Bourse, opening on 16 May 1840 and remaining there until 11 April 1869, when it moved into a new theatre on the Boulevard des Capucines . The Salle de la Bourse was closed and immediately demolished. In its place there is now a pub named The Vaudeville in memory of that theatre. Ludovic (opera) Ludovic
90-461: Was Cyprien Bérard, a former director of the Théâtre du Vaudeville . The programs consisted of ballads, opéras comiques ( Hector Berlioz was a chorister there for a few months), satires and political plays. The theatre suffered the prohibitions of censorship and had recurrent difficulties with the Opéra-Comique , which refused to share its privileges. However, for other reasons Bérard was forced to close his theatre on 15 February 1832. By chance
100-491: Was put on here. For the first time in the era, there were over 100 consecutive performances. Verdi was in the audience at this theatre and wrote La Traviata (1853) based on the play. From 1866 to 1868, a new Théâtre du Vaudeville was built on boulevard des Capucines , at the corner of Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin , in the 9e arrondissement . Although the Vaudeville continued as a commercial boulevard playhouse, it occasionally leased its stage to new experimentalist plays of
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