Paris: Opéra-Comique (3rd Salle Favart)

Country: France
City: Paris
Region: Île-de-France
Department: Paris
Location: II.; 5, rue Favart / place Boïeldieu

Built 1898 by Bernier as the 3rd "Salle Favart" on the site of two former theatre buildlings of the same name (1st "Salle Favart": built 1783, destroyed by a fire in 1838; 2nd "Salle Favart": built 1840, destroyed by a fire on 25 May 1887). Named in honour of the French opera librettist and Vaudeville author, Charles Edouard Favart. The three Salles Favart have been home to the "Opéra-Comique" company from 1783 to 1801, from 1840 to 1887, and again since 1898. 1500 seats.

Notable world premieres:

  • Jules Massenet: Cendrillon (24 May 1899)
  • Gustave Charpentier: Louise (2 Feb 1900)
  • Jules Massenet: Grisélidis (20 Nov 1901)
  • Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Melisande (30 Apr 1902)
  • Xavier Leroux: La Reine Fiammette (23 Dec 1903)
  • Camille Erlanger: Aphrodite (23 Mar 1906)
  • Paul Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (10 May 1907)
  • André Messager: Fortunio (5 June 1907)
  • Ernest Bloch: Macbeth (30 Nov 1910)
  • Maurice Ravel: L'heure espagnole (19 May 1911)
  • Gustave Charpentier: Julien (4 June 1913)

Links: www.opera-comique.com, EUTA, Wikipedia

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "L'Opéra comique", signed: "Orlow"
Publisher: Carte Lutèce, H. Ostheim, Paris
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Paris to Kalmar (Sweden), 1900

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Opéra Comique"
Publisher: BAM(?), Paris
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd alle Favart) Front Text: "Paris - Opéra-Comique"
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Paris, Opéra-Comique"
Reverse Text: advertisement for "Pastilles et Tisane 'Liberia'"
Publisher: Imprimeurs d'Art, Marseille; 5
Type: Advertisement Card; Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Paris, L'Opéra-Comique"
Publisher: LL; 1653
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Exposition de Turin 1911. Une loge à l'Opera-Comique en 1911."
Publisher: Fourrures Revillon Frères
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Paris, Opéra-Comique"
Publisher: R. & K., L.; 10615
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: to Zuid-Beijerland (Netherlands), 1911

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Le Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Porte du grand Foyer"
Publisher: ?; No. 2723
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Le Grand Foyer"
Publisher: ND Phot. [Neurdein]; No. 2681
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, le Grand Foyer"
Publisher: ND Phot. [Neurdein]; No. 2682
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: within Bruxelles (Belgium) [postmark illegible]

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Paris - Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, grand Foyer, Panneau décoratif, par Albert Maignan"
Publisher: ND Phot. [Neurdein]; No. 2691
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Paris to Vayres, 1908

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Front Text: "Paris - Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Grand Foyer, peinture murale, par Albert Maignan (détail)"
Publisher: ND Phot. [Neurdein]; No. 2695
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Paris to Mézières, 1910

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) First Day Cover (France, 2 June 1962)
Front Text: "Gustave Charpentier, L'Opéra-Comique"
Size: 16.3 x 9.3 cm

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Picture: auditorium
Front Text: "Opéra Comique - un hiver à l'opéra - formule '3 spectacles' - à partir de 196 francs - et 50 invitations à gagner! [...]"
Publisher: Opéra Comique; 1997
Type: Advertisement Card
Size: Modern
Not sent.

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Ticket (21 March 2008)
Picture: distorted photo of the auditorium
Front Text: "Opéra Comique Théâtre National"
Size: 14.5 x 8.6 cm

Paris: Opera-Comique (3rd Salle Favart) Picture: auditorium ceiling
Front Text: "arte Opéra Saison 2018/2019", "arte.tv/opera"
Reverse Text: advertising the operatic season on the French/German TV station arte
Publisher: arte, Strasbourg
Type: Advertisement Card, not designed for postal use
Size: Modern
Not sent.

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