#l'opera garnier

[mote-historie]

Brassaï, Gala à l’Opéra Garnier, Paris, France, 1930

#Brassaï #opera garnier #paris #1930 #palais garnier #photography #street photography #street photo #street photografie #street photoshoot #brassai #george brassai #Gyula Halász #Gyula Halasz #street fashion #30s evening wear #paris fashion #paris street fashion #l'opera garnier #paris opera #30s paris #paris at night #30s lifestyle #night #evening #darkness #dark #surrealism #surrealist art #surrealist photography

[wgm-beautiful-world]

L'Opéra Restaurant in Paris, FRANCE

#l'opera restaurant #restaurant l'opéra #restaurante l'apera #palais garnier #garnier palace #palacio garnier #the opera garnier #la opera garnier #l'opera garnier #paris france #paris francia #europe #europa

[lotusunset]

Far too many pics of the Palais Garnier (Part One!)

In October of 2022, I had the extraordinary experience of getting to complete an 15+ year old dream of mine to visit the Palais Garnier. I took a metric fuckton of pictures and now I want to share them with you all, the PotO community!

Before I start dumping, a few things:

Please reblog this post. I usually don’t post a lot, therefore I don’t have a big following. I’d really appreciate people sharing these as much as they can. When I was a dumb kid in ye olden days of the internet, finding a post like this was the sort of thing I would have been hyped up on for weeks. Help spread that kind of joy!

Feel free to use these photos for any sorts of graphics, artistic reference or any other fandom related projects, as long as it’s not for profit. Please just credit me in some way. In fact, I'd love to be tagged to see whatever creations come from sharing all this!

With these pictures, I really tried to focus on capturing close up details of things that aren’t often seen in common photos. That said, this post is going to be all exterior shots. I will share interior shots in subsequent posts. As I make them, I'll link them together. Enjoy!

PART 1 (here) | PART 2 (staircase) | PART 3 (foyer) | PART 4 (stage)

These are the doors under the arches on the face of the building. In the past, these would have been the entrances for the “common folk” that attended the opera.

This sculpture was my favorite one on the exterior just for the details of the reflection in the hand mirror.

This is the view of the street when you stand directly on the steps in front of the Opera. To the right, there is a really interesting cafe. Opening in 1862, Cafe de la Paix is definitely somewhere Raoul and Christine could have shared a romantic meal!

Historically, I believe this would have been one of the entrances for wealthy patrons of the Opera, like our favorite Vicomte. Now, its a restaurant, CoCo. We didn't get a chance to eat there, as it seemed to be a black-tie sort of place. The surrounding area of the Opera was all very upscale, lots of luxury storefronts and other fancy restaurants.

The ceiling on the 2nd level balcony.

The modern entrance to the box office is right behind this awesome tribute to the man himself, Charles Garnier.

PART 1 (here) | PART 2 (staircase) | PART 3 (foyer) | PART 4 (stage)

#palais garnier #phantom of the opera #poto #raoul de chagny #christine daae #erik #le fantome de l'opera #photography #photo dump #art reference

[emaadsidiki]

Palais Garnier 🎶🎵🎼 The Phantom of The Opera

#Palais Garnier #Opera House #Neo Baroque #Architecture #Place de l'Opera #Street Scene #French Moments #Paris #France

[britishchick09]

i was trying to find out when sarah bernhardt visited the eiffel tower in 1889 and came across an article that said, ‘in 1899, Le Figaro ... to see two profiles: that of the Eiffel Tower, and Sarah Bernhardt's.’ i wondered if ‘99′ was a typo and looked up the paper, stumbling upon art by jules cheret!

i looked through a page with his art to see any from the rewrite’s time (1888-90) and lookie what i found! ;)

it all came full circle! ;D

#what a coincidence! :D #i still haven't found anything on the eiffel tower thing though :/ #i'm hoping she visited it in may so a certain someone can meet his idol... ;) #omg i just noticed that it says 'avenue d l'opera' on the bottom of the second poster!: o #that's where palais garnier is aka the someone's domain ;) #now that's a coincidence! ;D

[blackswaneuroparedux]

L'indole della moltitudine è volubile.

- Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe

The temper of the multitude is fickle.

A policeman and firefighters stand next to a burning pile of rubbish at Place de l'Opera in front of Opera Garnier during a demonstration a few days after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49,3 of the constitution in Paris on 20 March 2023.⁣

#machiavelli #quote #riot #demonstration #protests #protestors #mob #paris #opera garnier #pensions reform #france #macron #politics

[emotionalmotionsicknessxx]

Photos from my Opera Garnier Trip 2 of 3

Took some photos of the exhibit up at the Opera Garnier for my own (cough cough) research purposes and thought it might be helpful for others! Thought the Don Quixote dress looked awfully familiar!

Transcript of the information under the cut:

Gounod and Massenet at the Palais Garnier

Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet were two of the main composers who dominated the stage of the Palais Garnier around 1900, achieving a string of critically acclaimed successes. They embodied both a genre - that of grand opera with its hoses of star performers, featuring some of the greatest dramatic female singers of the day - and an artistic and financial system that led to the development of by-products and the golden age of the Paris Opera from its inauguration to the eve of the First World War. In 1859, Faust, based on Part 1 of Goethe's Faust (with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre) was performed for the first time at the Theater-Lyrique. Charles-Francois Gounod's work was an undeniable success and was performed 70 times in its first year alone. It soon entered the repertory of the Opera and became a mainstay. Jules Massenet, another prolific composer who explored most musical genres, also achieved great success at the Palais Garnier with Le Cid, Thais, and Griselidis. Fascinated by Wagner, whom he discovered in 1860, Massenet rapidly developed his own style, and soon acquired a following. In his composition class at the Conservatoire, he taught a whole generation of opera composers, including Gustave Charpentier, Reynaldo Hahn, Xavier Leroux, and Gabriel Pierne.

Opera at the Palais Garnier around 1900

While Jules Massenet, Charles Gounod, and Giuseppe Verdi (who supervised the first performances of his words at the Palais Garnier himself) were all triumphantly acclaimed at the Paris Opera in their lifetimes, Wagner took a little longer to inspire the unanimous recognition of the Parisian public. His rise was slow but the deeply-rooted and Germany's most famous composer finally enjoyed genuine success thanks to the unremitting work of a management team headed by Andre Charles Prosper Messager (1908-1914) known as "Messager", and Leimistin Broussan, known as "Broussan". As a result, Paris audiences were able to see a performance of the entire Ring cycle for the first time in June 1911. At this period, the Palais Garnier hosted Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes company, and Richard Strauss' Salome and Saint-Saens Dejanire both entered the repertory. During the Belle Epoque, the Palais Garnier was one of the chief places for Paris society to meet and be entertained, with an audience of subscribers made up of leading financiers, industrialists, and politicians.

Major Ballets at the Palais Garnier

4 June 1875

Coppelia - Argument de Charles Nuitter et Saint-Leon, Musique de Leo Delibes, choregraphie de Louis Merante

Giselle - Livret de Theophile Gautier et Jules-Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges d'apres Heinrich Heine, musique de Adolphe Adam, choregraphie de Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot (creation le 28 Juin 1841 a l'opera national de Paris). Ce ballet est tombe dans l'oubli, et a ete transmis par Marius Petipa en 1887. Giselle fait son retour au Palais Garnier en 1920

20 Juin 1921

Daphnis et Chloe

musique de Maurice Ravel, choregraphie de Michel Fokine, decors de Leon Bakst

9 Jullet 1935

Icare

Musique de Szyfer et Arthur Honegger, choregraphie de Serge Lifar, decors et costumes de Paul R Larthe d'apres Pablo Picasso

#phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera history #writing ref

[olympusgloryrpg]

«¿Había que lamentar un accidente? ¿Una compañera había gastado una broma a una de las señoritas del cuerpo de baile? ¿Una cajita de polvos faciales se había perdido? ¡Todo era culpa del fantasma, del fantasma de la ópera!» – Gaston Leroux, Le fantôme de l'Opera. Aquellos que carecen de fe consideran esto meramente un delirio colectivo, una suerte de chivo expiatorio al que pueden señalar cuando buscan un responsable. "¡Es culpa del fantasma de la ópera!", exclaman con convicción cada vez que se topan con desgracias en su camino. Los nuevos dueños del teatro encuentran esto profundamente risible, pues les parece inverosímil que personas adultas puedan creer en la existencia de semejante ser. Por su parte, el público contempla esto como una mera y frágil excusa para no reconocer sus propias fallas en varias de las actuaciones. No obstante, el elenco, formado por aquellos que moran perpetuamente en el teatro, jura por la autenticidad de este enigmático ser. Entre ellos, fluyen historias de terror acerca de un hombre envuelto en una oscura capa y con un sombrero de copa, que habita en el palco número cinco del majestuoso Palacio Garnier. Sienten sus miradas inmóviles, que parecen desprovistas de toda vida, observándolos mientras interpretan sus papeles en el escenario, conscientes de que la insatisfacción del espectro solo les traerá infortunios y calamidades. La sabiduría común dicta que es imperativo evitar adentrarse en el palco número cinco, así como perturbar o buscar al espectro de ninguna manera. Todos están plenamente conscientes de que el acatamiento de estas reglas es lo que les garantiza la oportunidad de coexistir en paz. No obstante, esta paz es efímera y, tarde o temprano, llegará a su fin, dando paso a una serie de tragedias inminentes. La primera tragedia sacude hasta los cimientos mismos del Palacio Garnier, dejando al elenco cuestionándose— ¿Se trata realmente de un ente, o es alguien buscando hacer el mal utilizando tal producto del imaginario colectivo meramente como excusa?

NUEVA TRAMA DE SQUAD EN CASTING. [Hasta el 14 de Noviembre] -

FORO | Le fantôme de l'Opera.

#foro nuevo #rol #forum rpg #foro de rol #roleplay #rol hispano #trama squad #rol libre #rpg #based on #phantom of the opera

[nobletruths]

Kerry Degman skating down Avenue de l'Opera in Paris, between the Palais Garnier Opera and the Louvre

#kerry degman #male model #louvre #opera garnier #Paris #skaterboy #goals

[earthanthem]

Noel à l'opera Garnier by john doe / 500px

(via Pinterest)

[mariacallous]

The great Maria Callas performs an aria from her signature role, Bellini's druid priestess Norma, with the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris and Georges Sebastian. Recorded live at the Palais Garnier on the 19th of December 1958, this concert marked the soprano's debut at the Paris Opera, a major social event for Parisians and for which Callas donned her most elegant couture and a million dollars' worth of jewelry. The official Maria Callas website: http://www.maria-callas.com/

#Youtube

[bookingrentholiday]

Secret de Paris – Hotel & Spa https://www.bookingrentholiday.com/properties/secret-de-paris-hotel-spa/

[lotusunset]

Far too many pics of the Palais Garnier (Part Three!)

In October of 2022, I had the extraordinary experience of getting to complete an 15+ year old dream of mine to visit the Palais Garnier. I took a metric fuckton of pictures and now I want to share them with you all, the PotO community!

Before I start dumping, a few things:

Please reblog this post. I usually don’t post a lot, therefore I don’t have a big following. I’d really appreciate people sharing these as much as they can. When I was a dumb kid in ye olden days of the internet, finding a post like this was the sort of thing I would have been hyped up on for weeks. Help spread that kind of joy!

Feel free to use these photos for any sorts of graphics, artistic reference or any other fandom related projects, as long as it’s not for profit. Please just credit me in some way. In fact, I'd love to be tagged to see whatever creations come from sharing all this!

This is part three, which is a continuation of pictures from the interior. I will continue to share information from the tour I took in this post as well. In fact, these are some of my personal favorites, as I never knew about some of these rooms as just some silly American girl on the internet. I hope you guys enjoy these even more than the last!

Part 1 (Exterior) | Part 2 (staircase) | Part 3 (HERE) | Part 4 (stage)

This is the grand foyer, an area that is pretty heavily photographed already. Standing in this room is almost as impressive as the massive staircase. The paintings on the walls and ceilings depict a lot of mythological scenes. In one of them, there is a hidden portrait of Garnier, along with the other artists that were involved in creating the paintings. The doors leading to the 2nd level balcony are located in the grand foyer.

Historically, only the gentlemen were allowed in the grand foyer, as it was seen as a place for them to converse and do business until one night, the Queen of Spain decided that she didn't care about such arbitrary rules. Ignoring it completely, she entered the room. The men all decided to leave, offended that even a queen would dare to encroach on their space. As word traveled around the Opera that night, all the other women soon joined the Queen in the foyer, wanting to see for themselves that she was there. Afterwards, men and women were begrudgingly allowed to mingle.

I found this to be a very interesting room. At the end of the grand foyer, this room was full of sunlight and comparatively simple decorations. The wealthy patrons themselves served as the real decorations of this room, as they would gather here for refreshments! The common folk, while not permitted to enter, would come to simply watch the rich people indulge in lots of expensive treats.

In fact, the menu still hangs on the wall in the form of all the portraits! All the women are holding items that symbolize various food items, tea, coffee, wine, game meat, fish, ice cream, citrus fruits and pastries.

I couldn't help but imagine Raoul taking various treats and sneaking them out to share with Christine.

We weren't allowed to go down this hallway but it just continued to make this place feel like a giant maze.

These two rooms were nearly identical, though on opposite ends of a hallway. A few mistakes were made during their construction. The top room is known as the Sun room, for its warmer ambiance. The bottom is the Moon room.

Firstly, the rooms were meant to be swapped locations. The Sun Room was supposed to lead into the gentlemen's smoking room, but the Moon room leads to it instead. On the ceiling of the Sun room, salamanders are painted. The little amphibians were believed to ward off the danger of fire and protect the building. By the time the mistake was caught, it was too late to change it.

The other mistake can be seen in the mirror illusion in the Sun room. Because of a fault in the construction of the mirrors, the glass is too curved and the error is magnified with the illusion. The light appears to bend around a corner, instead of repeating on into infinity.

I imagine Erik was quite cross with the workers when he realized these errors occurred. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be on the receiving end of his temper that day!

Looking at the star motifs painted on both ceilings, I wonder if they could have inspired Christine's Star Princess costume in the musical.

PART 1 (exteriors) | PART 2 (staircase) | PART 3 (here!) | Part 4 (stage)

#phantom of the opera #poto #le fantome de l'opera #palais garnier #paris #opera garnier #christine daae #raoul de chagny #erik #photography #art reference #history #architecture

[emaadsidiki]

The Palais Garnier Opera House

#Palais Garnier #Opera House #Neo Baroque #Architecture #Place de l'Opera #Street Scene #French Moments #Paris #France

[littleeliza-lotte]

Got to see the Opera Garnier !!! Went into the gift shop but Not the rest of the building. Just can’t believe I got to go by it and go somewhat inside!

#personal #phantom of the opera #opera garnier #palais garnier #Paris opera house #Opera house #France #gaston leroux #le fantome de l'opera #rue de rivoli

[crystalline-pleasure]

Ludmila Pagliero

La mort du cygne @Paris Opera Ballet

© Svetana Loboff

#Ludmila Pagliero #la mort du cygne #mikhail fokine #camille saint-saëns #paris opera ballet #Ballet de l'Opera de Paris #Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris #Palais Garnier