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Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin

The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin is a venerable theatre and opera house at 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

Address

18 Boulevard Saint-Martin

Paris, France

48°52′8.5″N 2°21′24″E / 48.869028°N 2.35667°E / 48.869028; 2.35667

Theatre

1781 (1781)

1873

Oscar de la Chardonnière

1783: , opéra-ballet in three acts by André Grétry

La caravane du Caire

1787: , opéra (tragédie lyrique) by Antonio Salieri

Tarare

1806: Ramire, ou le fils naturel, melodrama in 3 acts by Philippe Jacques de La Roche, music by .

Francesco Bianchi

1818: Les Deux Colons, a one-act play interspersed with verses by and James Harvey D'Egville

Joseph Aude

1841: Les Farfadets, a "ballet-féerie" by

Auguste Pilati

1849: Le Postillon de Saint-Valéry, opéra-comique by Auguste Pilati

1849: Le pasteur, ou l’evangile et le foyer, a play by and Eugène Bourgeois

Émile Souvestre

1874: a stage version of 's Around the World in Eighty Days, adapted by Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery, which ran 415 performances[3] (before its subsequent very long run at the Théâtre du Châtelet)

Jules Verne

1880: L'Arbre de Noël, operetta by and Georges Jacobi

Alexandre Charles Lecocq

1887: , written by Victorien Sardou for Sarah Bernhardt, with a hugely successful first run of 200 performances

La Tosca

1897: the original , the best-known work of Edmond Rostand, with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title role

Cyrano de Bergerac

1907: , final play by Victorien Sardou

The Affair of the Poisons

1914: Monsieur Brotonneau, play by and Robert de Flers

Gaston Arman de Caillavet

Three of the above were the basis of opera libretti:


The theatre's other productions have included the ballet Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1823) and works by Dany Boon, Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson and Gaston Arman de Caillavet.

Suzanne Lagier

Official web site.

. Google Maps street view at 18, boulevard Saint-Martin.

Facade of the current theatre