Salle du Bel-Air

View of the Salle du Bel-Air from the city ramparts overlooking the moat
Jeu de Paume de Béquet on a 1615 enlargement of a section of the 1609 Quesnel map of Paris[1]

The Salle du Bel-Air[2] or Salle du Jeu de Paume de Béquet (Hall of the Béquet Tennis Court) was a 1672 theatre located in Paris, France. Originally an indoor tennis court (jeu de paume) it was converted by the Italian designer Carlo Vigarani into a theatre which was used by Jean-Baptiste Lully's Paris Opera from 15 November 1672 to 1 February 1673.[3] It was located in the Rue de Vaugirard, just west of the city moat (fossé) and the Rue des Fossés Monsieur-le-Prince (now the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince). Today the site of the former theatre extends into the Rue de Médicis, just south of no. 15 (or 13 bis) Rue de Vaugirard.[4]

History

Lully's Les fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus opened at the Salle du Bel-Air in November 1672. This was followed by his first tragédie lyrique, Cadmus et Hermione, on 27 April 1673. The theatre was equipped with stage machinery, but Lully regarded it as temporary. After Molière died on 17 February 1673, Lully convinced King Louis XIV to allow him to use Molière's theatre at the Palais-Royal free of charge.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Nuitter & Thoinan 1886, after p. 130.
  2. ↑ La Salle 1875, pp. 21–24.
  3. ↑ Wild 1989, p. 299; Harris-Warrick 1992, p. 856.
  4. ↑ Nuitter & Thoinan 1886, after p. 284.
  5. ↑ Harris-Warrick 1992, p. 856.

Bibliography

  • Harris-Warrick, Rebecca (1992). "Paris. 2. 1669–1725", vol. 3, pp. 856–858, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 volumes, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9781561592289.
  • La Salle, Albert de (1875). Les Treize Salles de l'Opéra. Paris: Librairie Sartorius. Copy at Google Books. Notice bibliographique at the BnF.
  • Nuitter, Charles; Thoinan, Ernest (1886). Les Origines de l'Opéra français (in French). Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie. Copies 1 and 2 at Google Books.
  • Wild, Nicole ([1989]). Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens au XIXe siècle: les théâtres et la musique. Paris: Aux Amateurs de livres. ISBN 9780828825863. ISBN 9782905053800 (paperback). View formats and editions at WorldCat.

Coordinates: 48°50′56″N 2°20′21″E / 48.848905°N 2.339235°E / 48.848905; 2.339235

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