![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until a fire ravaged the entire Salle Le Peletier the temporary home of the Paris Opera in 1873, that Garnier was instructed to finished construction works on the new building as soon as he could. Garnier and his team worked tirelessly throughout 1874 to finish the construction. During the same year, the first acoustic test took place, the following test was attended by state officials, the Paris Opera Ballet presented the first show and the famous chandelier was lit in the opera house on December 18 th. Palais Garnier Opera House was officially inaugurated in 1875. Since then, the opera house saw the installment of electric lighting, the addition of elevators to help with moving sceneries for new works, and the latest restoration works on the building began in 1994 to strengthen the structure and preserve its opulence, only finishing in 2007. The word often used to describe Palais Garnier is “opulence” which means extreme extravagance. Even though, the majority of architectural opinions about this landmark have agreed it’s a masterpiece, other architects described the Garnier style of architecture as a décor for the grave.Įither way, the Palais Garnier was designed in what its mastering architect called Napoleon III style, which basically means no space, inside or out, is left without decoration. ![]() This style resulted in an architectural masterpiece, both inside and out. The opera’s main façade is the south one, where a total number of 87 sculptors, painters and mosaicists worked on it, dominates Place de l’Opera. This façade is decorated by two sculptural groups representing Harmony and Poetry at each far side. Beneath these two main groups, the entire façade is decorated with sculptural works by many prominent artists, such as Jouffroy’s Poetry, Chapu’s The Cantata and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s infamous The Dance. To finish off the decoration of the main façade, busts of some of the all-time great composers, such as Beethoven, Mozart, Auber and Meyerbeer, were lined all along this part of the building. ![]()
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