L'Olympia
L’Olympia—also known as Olympia Hall and, locally, Olympia Bruno Coquatrix—is a Paris concert venue with a deep late–19th-century entertainment past. The hall opened in 1893, created by the same entrepreneurial circle behind the Moulin Rouge. Before the building became a music destination, the ground at 28 Boulevard des Capucines had been shaped by Josep Oller and Charles Zidler, who imported and built a wooden roller coaster there in 1888. Over the decades, its programming shifted: theatrical performances declined in the late 1920s, it was converted into a cinema, and then re-opened in 1954 with Bruno Coquatrix as executive director. Since the 1960s, it has been closely associated with rock music. Threatened with demolition in the early 1990s, it was saved by a preservation order; the facade and interior were kept, but the whole edifice was demolished and rebuilt in 1997. …
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