Théâtre du Vaudeville

The Théâtre du Vaudeville is a former theater in Paris which existed under this name in different buildings and in different places between 1792 until 1927. The theater is mentioned in the Napoleonic decree theater with its specialization in vaudeville. The last building is now a cinema and is named Gaumont Opéra.

First house

As a result, the Paris Theater freedom and permission of private sector theater, the Théâtre du Vaudeville was established in 1792 in the Rue de Chartres Saint- Honoré in Waux - hall d' hiver, a former ballroom. It was dedicated to a very French genre of musical theater: small comedies, containing couplets with newly sealed lyrics to familiar melodies, the Vaudeville. As a " second-rate theater " it survived the Napoleonic theater reforms of 1807, was expressly limited to these theater genre. Here, the later famous actress Virginie Déjazet made ​​her debut.

The opening of the Théâtre du Gymnase - dramatique 1820, the theater received a threatening competition and remained difficult. 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

1840, took place at the Place de la Bourse in the former of the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Rue Vivienne Hall, a new venue, which had been temporarily used by the Opéra -Comique, but was no longer needed. 1852 was the stage version of the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger premiered. Giuseppe Verdi saw the staging and made ​​the decision to rework the piece for his opera La Traviata. Premieres of works by Henri Meilhac, Labiche Eugène Jules Verne or have been given here. 1869, the theater was demolished. A restaurant named Le Vaudeville is still reminiscent of the theater.

Third House

1866-68 was built on the Boulevard des Capucines, a third house, which bore the name Théâtre du Vaudeville. It was as a theater until 1927, when it was taken over by the film company Paramount Pictures, converted to a cinema and renamed Paramount Opéra. As cinema, it still exists today, since 2007 Gaumont Opéra they say.