The Salle de la Bouteille () or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille (), later known as the Hôtel eGuénégaud () or Guénégaud Theatre, was a 1671

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located in Paris, France, between the

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and the rue des Fossés de Nesle (now 42 rue Mazarine, at its intersection with the rue Jacques Callot). It was across from the rue Guénégaud, which ran behind the garden of a townhouse formerly known as the Hôtel de Guénégaud on the quai de Nevers. The theatre was the first home of the

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and in 1680 became the first theatre of the

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. It closed in 1689 and was later partially demolished and remodeled for other purposes.

History

Originally a tennis court (''

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'') that was converted into a theatre, it was inaugurated in 1671 as the first home of

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's Académie d'Opéra (see

). The first French opera,

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's '' Pomone'' with a libretto by Perrin, premiered there on 3 March of that year.Sadler 2001, p.180. Bashford 1992, p. 697: "Considered by modern scholars to be the first true French opera..." A second lyric work, ''Les peines et les plaisirs de l'amour'', with a libretto by Gabriel Gilbert and music by Cambert, was performed in 1672.Harris-Warrick 1992, p. 856. On 13 March 1672 the ''surintendant'' of the king's music,

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...

, acquired Perrin's rights to perform opera and named his company the Académie Royale de Musique, although it also continued to be called the Opéra. Because of legal difficulties Lully could not use the Salle de la Bouteille, and moved the Opéra to a theatre built by

Carlo Vigarani Carlo Vigarani ( – 17 February 1713)Sheren and La Gorce 2001. was an Italian scenic designer who worked as ("royal engineer") and then ("intendant to the King's pleasures") at the court of the French king Louis XIV until 1690. He was born in ...

in the Bel-Air tennis court on the

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. In 1673, after the death of

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, the Salle de la Bouteille became the home of the Guénégaud Theatre, a company formed from the remnants of the troupe of Molière and players from the

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. In 1680, after merging with the troupe from the Hôtel de Bourgogne, the company became known as the

and continued to perform in the Guénégaud until 1689, when it moved to the Jeu de Paume de l'Étoile on the rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (the southeastward extension of the rue des Fossés de Nesle), today known as the .Clarke 1998, pp. 1, 112.

Notes

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