The Opéra of the Quay to the Hay is the first theater open to the public with Brussels. Inaugurated in 1682, it was abandoned in 1699 and became a warehouse.

Under the impulse of the governor of the Spanish Netherlands Alexandre Farnese, Gio-Battista Petrucci, “historian of the king”, and Pierre Fariseau, notable of Brussels, rent in a rider of the city a building located on the meadows of the Grand Béguinage, with the shore of the quay to the Hay. Into a few months the building are transformed into theater and the decorations and accessories of the palate, where the representations were held up to that point, are forwarded to the new room.

The inauguration takes place the January 24th 1682 and the representations of opening last for all the period of the carnival. Petrucci has under its orders more than 140 people, actors, musicians and machinists included/understood. The first part that one gives to it is Egeo in Atene , opera of Angelo Vitali, followed many works of Lully.

Given up first once in 1689, the opera reopens its doors end 1694 under the joint direction of Gio Paolo Bombarda and Pietro Antonio Fiocco. It closes definitively fine 1697 to leave the place, three years later, with new “the Théâtre '' on Monnoye ''”.