Municipal opera of Marseilles

The municipal Opera of Marseilles is located in the district of the same name, not far from the Old man-Port. This municipal Opera was built on old “the Large-Theater ” which had taken fire.

The first stone of the Grand Theater had been posed the July 14th 1786 per Mister of the Tower, Intendant of Provence; then the October 31st 1787, the inauguration took place in the presence of the marshal prince of Beauvau, Gouverneur of Provence, whose personal troop of actors ensured the Spectacle.

The November 13rd 1919 at the conclusion of a repetition of African the of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the theater took fire and devastated the near total of the building. There remains former theater the colonnade and the Péristyle which go back to 1787 and large a plank of Antoine Bourdelle which frames the scene. It was necessary to await the November 16th 1920 so that the Municipality adopts a program of rebuilding. Started work was completed in three years and half.

The inauguration of the new theater took place the December 3rd 1924 by the Doctor Siméon Flaissières, Senator - Maire of the time. Marseilles was thus the second town of France, after Bordeaux, to have its opera.

For the first one played Sigurd writes by Ernest Reyer. Its works were played during many years for the opening of the season.

It was necessary to await 1945 so that it passes in municipal control, the City ensuring from now on its exploitation.

In September 2007 is created in this place the opera Marius and Fanny, inspired of the first two volumes of the Marseilles Trilogie of Marcel Pagnol. Opera composed by Vladimir Cosma, with in the roles titles Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu.

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