Théâtre du Vaudeville
The Théâtre du Vaudeville is a former theater in Paris that existed under this name in various buildings and locations between 1792 and 1927. The theater is mentioned in the Napoleonic theater decree with its specialization in vaudevilles. The last building is now a cinema and is called the Gaumont Opéra .
First house
As a result of Paris' freedom of theater and its permission to operate privately owned theaters, the Théâtre du Vaudeville was set up in 1792 on Rue de Chartres-Saint-Honoré in the Waux-hall d'hiver, a former ballroom . It was dedicated to a very French genre of musical theater: small comedies that contained couplets with newly composed texts to familiar melodies, the so-called vaudevilles . As a "secondary theater" it survived the Napoleonic theater reforms of 1807, but was expressly limited to this type of theater. Here the later famous actress Virginie Déjazet made her debut .
With the opening of the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique in 1820, the theater faced threatening competition and found it difficult to maintain. After the July Revolution of 1830 , it was renamed Théâtre-National .
After a fire in 1838 the theater played temporarily in the building of the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique.
Second house
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In 1840 it found a new venue on the Place de la Bourse in the former room of the Théâtre des Nouveautés , Rue Vivienne, which had meanwhile been used by the Opéra-Comique but was no longer needed. In 1852, the stage version of the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger premiered. Giuseppe Verdi saw the production and made the decision to rework the piece into his opera La traviata . World premieres by Henri Meilhac , Eugène Labiche or Jules Verne were given here. In 1869 the theater was demolished. A restaurant called Le Vaudeville still reminds of the theater.
Third house
In 1866-68 a third house was built on the Boulevard des Capucines, which was named Théâtre du Vaudeville. It existed as a theater until 1927, when it was taken over by the film company Paramount Pictures , converted into a cinema and renamed Paramount Opéra . It still exists as a cinema today; since 2007 it has been called Opéra Gaumont .
literature
- Lothar Matthes: Vaudeville. Investigations into the history and the literary systematic place of a genre of success , Winter, Heidelberg 1983. ISBN 3-533-03430-5
- Arthur Pougin: Dictionnaire historique et pittoresque du théâtre et des arts qui s'y rattachent , Librairie de Firmin-Didot, Paris 1885, p. 723
