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[1] After the Emperor's death in 1873 and the proclamation of the French Third Republic in 1870, President Mac-Mahon refused to use this Pavilion as a private space for the head of state. Charles Nuitter succeeded in compelling Charles Garnier to transform the pavilion into a space for the conservation of the Opera's books and archives.
The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica". [8] This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux 's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in ...
Charles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue Mouffetard, in the present-day 5th arrondissement.His father, Jean André Garnier, 1796–1865, who was originally from Sarthe, a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, had worked as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and coachbuilder before settling down in Paris to work in a horse-drawn carriage ...
Seaside façade of the Salle Garnier, home of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo Auditorium and stage (c. 1879) Royal box (c. 1900) The architect Charles Garnier also designed the Paris opera house now known as the Palais Garnier. The Salle Garnier is much smaller, seating 524, compared to about 2,000 for the Palais Garnier, and unlike the Paris theatre ...
Name Location Date Notes Bust of Daniel Auber: Opéra de Paris 1847 The whereabouts of the marble bust of this composer, shown at the Paris Salon of 1847, is unknown but the Opéra de Paris (Palais Garnier) hold a plaster model and a bronze replica is on the façade of the Opéra building.
The work eventually premiered in the new Palais Garnier on 7 October 1878. The libretto is more faithful to its source than Les martyrs, Scribe's adaptation for Gaetano Donizetti, and Gounod hoped to express "the unknown and irresistible powers that Christianity has spread among humanity". [1] The subject had occupied Gounod for some ten years.
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It was first performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 5 May 1909. The story is based on the mythology surrounding Bacchus and Ariadne (Ariane). The Gods, among them the demi-god Bacchus, appear in human form in ancient India to attempt to persuade the people away from the pervading Buddhist influence.