 The latter were restored during a 2004 reconstruction that converted the building into an arts centre, La Gaîté Lyrique, completed in November 2010.Jacques Offenbach was the director of the Théâtre de la Gaîté from 1873 to 1874.His opéra-bouffe-féerie "Le roi Carotte" was first performed here in 1872 and his "opéra-féerie" "Le voyage dans la lune" in 1875.