Second Salle Favart

Louis Charpentier's house of 1,500 seats, built on the site of the first Salle Favart, which fire had destroyed in 1838, and opened in 1840 with a revival of Hérold's Le Pré aux clercs. Home of the Opéra-Comique for forty-seven years and the theatre where Carmen was first given in 1875, along with Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Lakmé and Manon. The posters of its last decade name the company as the Théâtre National de l'Opéra Comique. Fire destroyed the building on 25 May 1887 and eighty-four people in the audience died of asphyxiation.