Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
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The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (Script error: No such module "IPA".; "European Music Hall"; formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon Script error: No such module "IPA".; "Music Hall") is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden and the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the Senate.
First theatre
The original building, the Salle du Faubourg Saint-Germain, was constructed for the Théâtre Français between 1779 and 1782 to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre. The site was in the garden of the former Hôtel de Condé. The new theatre was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782. It was there that Beaumarchais' play The Marriage of Figaro was premiered two years later. On April 27, 1791, during the Revolution, the company split. The players sympathetic to the crown remained in the theatre in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. They were arrested and incarcerated on the night of September 3, 1793, but were allowed to return a year later. In 1797, the theater was remodeled by the architect Jean-François Leclerc and became known as the Odéon, but it was destroyed by a fire on March 18, 1799.[1][2]
Second theatre
An 1808 reconstruction of the theater designed by Jean-François Chalgrin (architect of the Arc de Triomphe) was officially named the Théâtre de l'Impératrice, but everyone still called it the Odéon.[3] It burned down in 1818.
Third theatre
The third and present structure, designed by Pierre Thomas Baraguay, was opened in September 1819. In 1990, the theater was given the sobriquet 'Théâtre de l'Europe'. It is a member theater of the Union of the Theatres of Europe.
Access
| Located near the Métro station: Odéon. |
The Line 4 and Line 10 serves Odéon station.
See also
- Hôtel de Condé, previously on the same location
Notes
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- ↑ Wild 2012, pp. 98–100, 289–290; Carlson 1966, pp. 1–5 (The Marriage of Figaro).
- ↑ Culture & History of Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Regarding the name Théâtre de l'Impératrice, see Hemmings 1994, p. 106.
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Bibliography
- Carlson, Marvin (1966). The Theatre of the French Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Template:Catalog lookup link.
- Hemmings, F. W. J. (1994). Theatre and State in France, 1760–1905. New York: Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN (2006 reprint).
- Wild, Nicole (2012). Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens (1807–1914). Lyon: Symétrie. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
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