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The Palais Garnier (French: [palɛ ɡaʁnje] ⓘ, Garnier Palace), also known as the Opéra Garnier (French: [ɔpeʁa ɡaʁnje] ⓘ, Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seat [3] opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon ...
Around 1863 Charles Nuitter had begun cataloging the Opera's archives, and on 15 May 1866, he became the official archivist. He also published several books on the history of the company. [3] Théodore Lajarte was appointed librarian in 1873 and embarked on the systematic organization of the Opera's scores and instrumental parts. In 1876 he ...
L'Opéra au Palais Garnier 1875–1962; Paris n.d. but probably 1963 ^ Charlton, David. The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera , p. 187, available online at Google Books.
The Salle Le Peletier, home of the Paris Opera during the middle of the 19th century. French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language.It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
Garnier was dominant at the Conservatoire; he was "the savior of the French school of oboe during the Revolution." [3] As oboist and flautist with the Paris Opera, Garnier participated in the premiere performances of many of the works of Grétry, Méhul, Gluck, Cherubini and Gossec, each under the composer's
A copy of La Danse on the façade of the Paris Opera, the original was moved to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986. La Danse is an 1868 sculpture by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was one of four sculptural groups made from Echaillon marble that decorate the façade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, two to either side of the entrance at ...
The French premiere of the opera itself came in 1927 at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 11 February 1927 with conductor Philippe Gaubert. The cast included Germaine Lubin as Octavian. Brussels heard the work for the first time at La Monnaie on 15 December 1927 with Clara Clairbert as Sophie.
In a theatre, a box, loge, [1] or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event. The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above