The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 273.—Ballet-dress (a demon); after Martin. initiated the public into the beauties of Italian Music. After thefire of 1781, the theatre was removed from the Palais-Royal to aprovisional building, erected in sixty-five days, on the Boulevard , where the masterpieces of French, Italian, and Germanmusic were produced. Gretry, Piccini, Sacchini, and Salieri, wereamongst the composers, and Gardel was the chief vocal talents of Sophie Arnould and Rosalie Levasseur, ofLarrivee and Legros, w
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 273.—Ballet-dress (a demon); after Martin. initiated the public into the beauties of Italian Music. After thefire of 1781, the theatre was removed from the Palais-Royal to aprovisional building, erected in sixty-five days, on the Boulevard , where the masterpieces of French, Italian, and Germanmusic were produced. Gretry, Piccini, Sacchini, and Salieri, wereamongst the composers, and Gardel was the chief vocal talents of Sophie Arnould and Rosalie Levasseur, ofLarrivee and Legros, were seconded, if not eclipsed, by those of 410 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Lais, Chardini, and St. Huberty. At this date, the expenses weretwice as large as they liad been in the middle of the century. In1760, the cost of carrying on tlie theatre did not exceed £ 16,000,and the receipts would have sufficed to pay this sum, if they had not. Fig. 274.—The of a fair. (Represtnlation of * Harlequin, King of Gcrendib,at the St. Germain fair (1713); after Bonnart. been wasted in useless expenditure. The staff of persons belongingto the theatre, which in 1760 numbered 150, consisting of actors andactresses, dancers and danseuses, symphonists and musicians,inspectors and subordinate cmployds, had more than doubled twentyyears later, and this exclusive of the pupils who were learning singingand dancing in the two schools attached to the opera in the Rue THE THEATRES. 411 The three leading theatres of Paris, the Royal Academy of Music,the Comc^die-Francaise, and the Theatre-Itallen, resisted as lone asthey could the establishment of fresh theatres. Three times, in1718, 1745, and 1762, they had succeeded in depriving the Opera- 1 rij^^^^^^^fe 5^^saagsj s& { ^^^T^ 1 1 ^A H^rf^ . , ,,,^1 frf JSm ?iM % ^Pi RI^M ^s^€: w-% ^ w^... 1 W i 1
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