It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris opened. Its opulent interior is famous throughout the world. In 2025, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances ...

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 ...

Aerial view of the Palais Garnier, Paris, February 10 ... Until the mid-1970s, it was considered the largest opera house in the world, and its proportions are impressive. Its surface area is ...