The queen had the little playhouse built as part of her pretend village at Le Petit Trianon; she and her friends attended plays and operas there and even performed themselves. (Her Majesty once played Rosine in Beaumarchais's The Barber of Seville.) The theatre is now so fragile (much of the interior is made of papier-mâché […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM on March 9, 2021