| Salle Ventadour | |
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 The Salle Ventadour as an opera house in the mid 19th century. | |
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| General information | |
| Type | opera house offices (after 1878) |
| Location | rue Méhul 2nd arrondissement of Paris |
| Coordinates | 48°52′04″N 2°20′05″E / 48.8677°N 2.33485°E |
| Current tenants | Banque de France |
| Construction started | 1826 |
| Inaugurated | 20 April 1829 |
| Cost | 4,620,000 francs[1] |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Jacques-Marie Huvé[1][2] |
| Other designers | de Guerchy[1] |
The Salle Ventadour, a former Parisian theatre in the rue Neuve-Ventadour, now the rue Méhul (2nd arrondissement of Paris), was built between 1826 and 1829 for the Opéra-Comique, to designs by Jacques-Marie Huvé, a prominent architect. The original theatre had a capacity of 1,106, but was subsequently taken over by the Théâtre-Italien and expanded to a capacity of 1,295 in 1841, thereafter becoming perhaps most noteworthy as the theatre in which the majority of the operas of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi were first performed in France. When the Théâtre-Italien company went out of business in 1878, the theatre was converted to offices.
- ^ a b c Chouquet, Gustave. "Ventadour, Théâtre" in Grove (1900) 4: 237–238. Copy at Wikisource.
- ^ Bauchal, Charles (1887). Nouveau dictionnaire biographique et critique des architects français. Paris: André, Daly fils. (in French) Full view at Google Books. Retrieved 30 April 2010.