Salle Favart

The Salle Favart (French pronunciation: [sal favaʁ]), officially the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique ([teɑtʁ də lɔpeʁa kɔmik]), is a Paris opera house and theatre, the current home of the Opéra-Comique.

It was built from 1893 to 1898 in a neo-Baroque style to the designs of the French architect Louis Bernier and is located on the Place Boïeldieu just south of the Boulevard des Italiens.

A competition was held, judged by five winners of the Grand Prix de Rome (including Charles Garnier, the architect of the Opéra), which ensured the design would reflect academic and official tastes.

[1] The winner of the competition was Louis Bernier (a former student of Honoré Daumet at the École des Beaux-Arts), who had won the Prix de Rome in 1872.

"[1] The critical reception was quite varied, with the rationalists attacking the "delirious frivolity" of the design, and the traditionalists defending it as appropriate for the operettas to be performed inside.

Poster for the 1902 première of Pelléas et Mélisande .