{"id":151,"date":"2020-04-17T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/2020\/04\/17\/port-louis-theatre\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:05:20","slug":"port-louis-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/2020\/04\/17\/port-louis-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Louis Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_138\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"size-large wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Port-Louis-Theatre-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Port Louis Theatre\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Port-Louis-Theatre-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Port-Louis-Theatre-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Port-Louis-Theatre-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Port-Louis-Theatre.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Port Louis Theatre<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Port Louis Theatre (Remy Ollier Street, Port Louis) \u2013<\/strong> this theater (the oldest in the Indian Ocean region) was built in 1822 by the first British Governor of Mauritius (Sir. Robert Farquhar), in response to local demand for quality entertainment. This 600-seat theater is decorated in a classic London theater style. Mauritian artists and international troupes would regularly frequent the theatre for a long winter season of plays and opera, performing such works as La Boh\u00eame, The Barber of Seville, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and A\u00efda. Night trains were even provided to allow opera-goers to return home late at night after the performances and the cultural reviews Port Louis Mondain and Maurice Th\u00e9\u00e2tre covered events in the press. The theatre is currently closed and undergoing renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Louis Theatre (Remy Ollier Street, Port Louis) \u2013 this theater (the oldest in the Indian Ocean region) was built in 1822 by the first British Governor of Mauritius (Sir. Robert Farquhar), in response to local demand for quality entertainment. This 600-seat theater is decorated in a classic London theater style. Mauritian artists and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritius-en","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}