Le Cap was a major cultural center matching European theatrical premieres

Evidence

Le Cap, which one resident called “the Paris of our island,” was a lively cultural center, one of the most important in the eighteenth-century Americas. It boasted a theater with a 1,500-person capacity, where Molière’s Le Misanthrope was performed in the 1760s. In 1784 Le Mariage de Figaro opened there soon after its premiere in Paris. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 92

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