The Birth of the Olympia: From Music Shed to Iconic Venue
The entrepreneur Joseph Oller inaugurated the “music hall” in 1893, shortly after creating the Moulin Rouge. Sixty years later, when the place had become a cinema, Bruno Coquatrix, who dreamed of a space dedicated to song, became the owner of L’Olympia. The Olympia, the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Mutuel have the same father, Joseph … Read more