Salle Ventadour

Salle Ventadour
The Salle Ventadour as an opera house in the mid 19th century.
Alternative names	Opéra-Comique (1829–32) Théâtre Nautique (1834–35) Théâtre-Italien (1838) Théâtre de la Renaissance      (1838–1841, 1868) Théâtre-Italien (1841–1878)
General information
Type	opera house offices (after 1878)
Location	rue Méhul 2nd arrondissement of Paris
Coordinates	48°52′04″N 2°20′05″E / 48.8677°N 2.33485°E / 48.8677; 2.33485
Current tenants	Banque de France
Construction started	1826
Inaugurated	20 April 1829
Cost	4,620,000 francs[1]
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Jacques-Marie Huvé[1][2]
Other designers	de Guerchy[1]

The Salle Ventadour, a former Parisian theatre in the rue Neuve-Ventadour, now the rue Méhul (2nd arrondissement of Paris), was built between 1826 and 1829 for the Opéra-Comique, to designs by Jacques-Marie Huvé, a prominent architect. The original theatre had a capacity of 1,106, but was subsequently taken over by the Théâtre-Italien and expanded to a capacity of 1,295 in 1841, thereafter becoming perhaps most noteworthy as the theatre in which the majority of the operas of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi were first performed in France. When the Théâtre-Italien company went out of business in 1878, the theatre was converted to offices.