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Opera Garnier

Category: Sightseeing + Tours

8 Rue Scribe, Paris, 75009

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Palais Garnier - Opera National de Paris - Paris - Reviews of Palais Garnier - Opera National de Paris - TripAdvisor
(Visit April 2007) Unbelievable. For fans of Phantom the staircase and chandelier will give you chills. For those who don’t know the connection it’s still a spectacle. Almost 150 years old and...
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Opera Garnier, Paris, France : Reviews of Opera Garnier - Yahoo! Travel
Le Palais L'Opera Garnier is a favorite haunt of mine. I love going there during the day to do pen and ink drawings of some of t...
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Opera Garnier, Paris | MyTravelGuide.com
Opera Garnier, named after the architect who designed it in 1862, was immortalized by writer Gaston Leroux in his Phantom of the Opera. The architecture is a mixture of baroque, classical, Greek and Napoleonic styles. Adorned with mosaics, the foyer has a cupola decorated by painter Marc Chagall and...
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Opéra Garnier, Paris - Reviews of Opéra Garnier - IgoUgo
Built in 1875, the Palais Garnier is a gem. It's very worth taking the tour if you cannot get tickets to a performance. It was the sole opera house before the Opera Bastille was built in 1989. Now it mainly has ballet performances; however, we were able to catch an opera here on our trip, and what a...
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Opéra Garnier- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
All you loyal readers of my Nürnberg page (thanks again to both of you!) will recall that there I talked about the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) and his opera Iphigenie in Aulis, composed in 1774. Here in Paris I saw the sequel, Iphigenie en Tauride, with the American mezzo-soprano ...
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Opéra Garnier - Paris France - Review of Opéra Garnier
by Carpeaux. Following a yearlong renovation, during which the Chagall ceiling was cleaned and air-conditioning was added, the facade gleams as it did for Napoleon III. You can see the original gilded busts and statues, the rainbow-hued marble pillars, and the mosaics. The Opéra Garnier combi...
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iExplore Community: Palais Garnier - Paris, France
Built in 1875, the Palais Garnier is a gem. It's very worth taking the tour if you cannot get tickets to a performance. It was the sole opera house before the Opera Bastille was built in 1989. Now it mainly has ballet performances; however, we were able to catch an opera here on our trip, and what a...
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Opéra Garnier - Paris Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
The opulent Opéra de Paris Garnier was designed by Charles Garnier for Emperor Napoleon III. It is the most important symbol of the 19th century Second Empire baroque style. Construction of the opera building started in 1862, but it wasn't completed until 1875, partly because an underground lake was...
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