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 Facade of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe | |
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| Address | 2 rue Corneille,6th arrondissement of Paris Paris |
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| Coordinates | 48°50′58.2″N2°20′19.5″E / 48.849500°N 2.338750°E /48.849500; 2.338750 |
| Public transit | Odéon   |
| Capacity | 800 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1782 |
| Reopened | 1808 |
| Rebuilt | 1819 |
| Architect | Pierre Thomas Baraguay |
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TheOdéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (French pronunciation:[ɔdeɔ̃teɑtʁd(ə)løʁɔp]; "European Music Hall"; formerly theThéâtre de l'Odéon[teɑtʁd(ə)lɔdeɔ̃]; "Music Hall") is one of France's six nationaltheatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of theSeine, next to theLuxembourg Garden and theLuxembourg Palace, which houses theSenate.
The original building, the Salle du Faubourg Saint-Germain, was constructed for theThéâtre Français between 1779 and 1782 to aNeoclassical design byCharles De Wailly andMarie-Joseph Peyre. The site was in the garden of the formerHôtel de Condé. The new theatre was inaugurated byMarie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782. It was there thatBeaumarchais' playThe Marriage of Figaro was premiered two years later. On April 27, 1791, during theRevolution, the company split. The players sympathetic to the crown remained in the theatre in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. They were arrested and incarcerated on the night of September 3, 1793, but were allowed to return a year later. In 1797, the theater was remodeled by the architect Jean-François Leclerc and became known as the Odéon, but it was destroyed by a fire on March 18, 1799.[1][2]
An 1808 reconstruction of the theater designed byJean-François Chalgrin (architect of theArc de Triomphe) was officially named theThéâtre de l'Impératrice, but everyone still called it the Odéon.[3] It burned down in 1818.
The third and present structure, designed by Pierre Thomas Baraguay, was opened in September 1819. In 1990, the theater was given thesobriquet 'Théâtre de l'Europe'. It is a member theater of theUnion of the Theatres of Europe.
| Located near theMétro station: Odéon. |
TheLine 4 andLine 10 serves Odéon station.
