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The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier (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.
History : Salle Le Peletier. Although designed and built to be a temporary theatre following the assassination of the Duc de Berry, the Salle Le Peletier would host the Opera for fifty-two glittering years which were highly productive artistically. The architect François Debret, already responsible for the restoration of the Saint-Denis ...
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The Salle Le Peletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) [1] 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. [2]
The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier 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 garden of the Hôtel de Choiseul on the rue Lepeletier.
From 1821 to 1873, the Opera settled in the theatre Le Peletier, where the Institution enjoyed a time of prosperity during which the French “Grand Opera” genre and the Romantic ballet blossomed. But a fire destroyed the Le Peletier hall, and so a new Opera House was inaugurated in 1875, called the Palais Garnier.
On 12 March 1832 the first version of La Sylphide premiered at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra with choreography by the groundbreaking Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni and music by Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer. Taglioni designed the work as a showcase for his daughter Marie.
Inaugurated in August 1821, the theatre in the rue Le Peletier was the “home” of grand opera, where all the great masterpieces in the genre were first performed. Hastily erected, it replaced the opera house in the rue Richelieu which was demolished after the assassination of the Duke de Berry, heir to the French crown.
