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    The Palais Garnier (French: [palɛ ɡaʁnje] , Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier (French: [ɔpeʁa ɡaʁnje] , Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seat...
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    The Opéra de Monte-Carlo is an opera house which is part of the Monte Carlo Casino located in the Principality of Monaco. With the lack of cultural diversions...
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    The Opéra Bastille (French: [ɔpeʁa bastij] , "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in...
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    architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Charles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue...
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    Palais Garnier. In 1939, the Opéra was merged with the Opéra-Comique and the company name became Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Nationaux. The Opéra-Comique...
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    Opéra (French: [ɔpeʁa] ) is a station on Lines 3, 7 and 8 of the Paris Métro. It is named after the nearby Opéra Garnier. Located at the end of the Avenue...
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    America. Major examples of the style include the Opéra Garnier (1862–1871) in Paris by Charles Garnier, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, the...
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    there in 1955 and that his wife Andrée Gavillon named it after the Opéra Garnier. Gaston Lenôtre (1920–2009) claimed he invented the dessert in 1960...
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    Quatre-Septembre [fr]. It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited on it and after which it is named. Both...
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    de Boulogne. The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the former tends...
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    interior grand staircase served as a model for the grand staircase of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the ceiling of the auditorium, there is a large fresco...
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    de la Danse in the Opéra Garnier in Paris (1875) and his massive ceiling painting Allegory of Music high above the stage of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo (1879)...
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  • Raoul. The theatre was built specifically for the show to resemble the Opéra Garnier in Paris. The production ran 95 minutes with no intermission, and was...
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    (partial) Rue de la Victoire Rue de Caumartin Rue Laffitte Place Pigalle Opéra Garnier seen from the Printemps Haussmann Mairie du IXe arrondissement Galeries...
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    the Opera Garnier by a copy made by Jean Juge. The original was moved to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986. Sculpture at the Opéra Garnier Façade of the Opéra Garnier...
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  • Romantic movement. Paris' largest opera houses are the nineteenth-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the former tends...
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  • of the Opera was even more freely adapted than Universal's silent picture. The film reused Universal's elaborate replica of the Opéra Garnier interior...
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    Jeanne d'Arc Les Invalides Louvre Pyramid Luxor Obelisk Odéon Opéra Bastille Opéra Garnier Panthéon Philharmonie de Paris Place Diana Flame of Liberty Porte...
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  • on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on 16 March 1894, starring the American soprano Sibyl Sanderson...
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    Jeanne d'Arc Les Invalides Louvre Pyramid Luxor Obelisk Odéon Opéra Bastille Opéra Garnier Panthéon Philharmonie de Paris Place Diana Flame of Liberty Porte...
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  • complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris,...
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    Méditation (Thaïs) (category Opera excerpts)
    opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The piece is written for solo violin, orchestra and backstage chorus. The opera premiered at the Opéra...
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    The Phantom of the Opera is the actual Paris opera house, the Palais Garnier. Leroux had heard the rumours about the time the opera house was finished...
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    Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, 300 metres (980 ft) north of Vendôme square. Its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre–Caumartin, and...
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    Jeanne d'Arc Les Invalides Louvre Pyramid Luxor Obelisk Odéon Opéra Bastille Opéra Garnier Panthéon Philharmonie de Paris Place Diana Flame of Liberty Porte...
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    in 1858. The modern theater Marigny was built by Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera, in 1883. Throughout its history, the avenue has been the...
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    for his design of the Salle Le Peletier, the primary opera house of Paris before the Opéra Garnier in 1873. He replaced the upper stained glass windows...
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    Thomas Jolly (category French opera directors)
    2016: Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli at the Opéra Garnier 2017: Fantasio by Jacques Offenbach at the Opéra Comique 2018: A Garden of Silence, a musical...
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    giving the flock a nest of ducks" - Pierre Gailhart, the director of the Opéra Garnier decided to trust him and engaged him as tenor. He then joined the tenors...
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    pursued in the cabarets of Montmartre. Large public buildings such as the Opéra Garnier devoted enormous spaces to interior designs as Art Nouveau show places...
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