Salle de la Bourse

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The Salle de la Bourse was a Parisian theatre located on the rue Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement, across the Paris Bourse, hence the name. It was successively the home of the Théâtre des Nouvelles (1827–32), the Opéra-Comique (1832–40), and the Théâtre du Vaudeville (1840–69). The theatre was demolished in 1869.

Theatre of New Releases (1827–32): The Salle de la Bourse was built to the designs of the French architect François Debret for the first Théâtre des Nouveautés, which opened there on 1 March 1827. The founder was Cyprien Bérard, a former director of the Théâtre du Vaudeville. The programs consist of ballads, comedy operas (Hector Berlioz was a chorister there for a few months), satires and political plays. The theater raised the prohibitions of censorship and had recent difficulties with the Opéra-Comique, which refused to share its privileges. However, for other reasons Bérard was forced to close his theatre on 15 February 1832.

Opéra-Comique (1832–40): By chance the Opéra-Comique, which had been bankrupted by the exorbitant rents at the Salle Ventadour, left that theatre and on 24 September 1832...