Salle Le Peletier

The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, the official title of the Paris Opera c. 1821

The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier[1] (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier)[2] 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.[3] Due to the many changes in government and management during the theatre's existence, it had a number of different official names, the most important of which were: Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique (1821–1848), Opéra-Théâtre de la Nation (1848–1850), Théâtre de l'Académie Nationale de Musique (1850–1852), Théâtre de l'Académie Impériale de Musique (1852–1854), Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra (1854–1870), and Théâtre National de l'Opéra (1870–1873).[4]

  1. ^ For examples, see Castil-Blaze (1855), L'Académie impériale de musique, p. 172 Archived 2021-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, and Encyclopédie d'architecture, vol 4 (1875), pp. 7, 8 Archived 2021-10-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Le Peletier has also been spelled Lepelletier. See Mead 1991, p. 48.
  3. ^ Mead 1991, p. 48.
  4. ^ Levin, Alicia. "A documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830–1900" in Fauser 2009, p. 382.