Aerial view of the Palais Garnier, Paris, February 10, 1929. AP It stands at the top of Paris's Avenue de l'Opéra, its facade a sculpted memory of harmony, music, opera and dance, whose nude ...

Leroux claimed the phantom was indeed real, successfully incorporating real life opera occurrences (such as the chandelier falling and killing a bystander) into his fiction. The Garnier's lack of ...