Talk:Théâtre du Palais-Royal

Wrong Theatre
The theater built in 1641 is a different theater than the one shown in the picture. The 1641 theater was destroyed by fire in 1763. A second theatre was built on the same site in 1770, but it was destroyed by fire on 8 June 1781. I believe the theater shown here is even at a different location. --Robert.Allen (talk) 12:39, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The following information does not belong in this article: In 1637 Cardinal Richelieu began work on a theatre on the east wing of the Palais-Royal building, to break the theatre monopoly of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and it was opened in 1641. The troupe of Molière and the troop of the Italians put on the shows here between 1662 and 1673. On the death of his old collaborator, Lully re-used the building for use as the Académie royale de Musique, ejecting Molière's troupe to a new home at the Hôtel de Guénégaud. Lully had much building work done on it in order to allow the installation of new stage machinery designed by Carlo Vigarani, capable of supporting the imposing sets of the operas he would later put on here. This replaced the old machinery designed by Giacomo Torelli in 1645.

An article on the theater with this name in the 17th and 18th centuries should probably be called Salle du Palais-Royal or possibly Palais-Royal (theatre). --Robert.Allen (talk) 12:56, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians says there were two theatres within the Palais-Royal in the 17th century (see the article on Lully). I have not yet found any info on the second theatre that was within the Palais-Royal. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (vol. 3, p. 830) simply calls the theatre "Palais Royal" (the one built in 1741 and used by Molière's players, and later the Paris Opéra).

Perhaps we could distinguish these two as:
 * Théâtre du Palais-Royal (Rue de Montpensier)
 * Théâtre du Palais-Royal (East Wing) or Théâtre du Palais-Royal (Cardinal Richelieu)

--Robert.Allen (talk) 19:51, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I never got any feedback on this, so it took me awhile to get around to this, but I finally picked a name: Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré). It's a bit cumbersome, but I guess I picked it because of what we did earlier with the Théâtre de la Gaîté. --Robert.Allen (talk) 12:09, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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