PARIS OPERAS

The Garnier Opera

This is the heart of the paris 9th district. With its department stores, Haussmann style buildings and Opera House. From the place Vendôme the Rue de la Paix brings us to the Opéra Garnier. Its unique appearence is due to a mixture of materials (including stone, marble and bronze) and styles ranging from classical to baroque , with a multitude of columns, friezes and scluptures on the exterior, the typical exemple of Napoleon III’s style. The building began in 1862 and was achieved in 1870 but it finally opened in 1875 under the Third Republic ; Most operas are now performed in the new Opera Bastille, but the ballet remains here .

From 1881 down to the present day, several restoration and modernization programmes have made the theatre increasingly functional without lessening its appeal as a monument: technical progress and the evolution of sets under the influence of "verism". The next step was the building of a modern and popular opera house: Opera Bastille.


Adress
Opera Garnier : Place de l'Opera, Paris 9e
Opera Bastille : Place de la Bastille Paris 12e

How to get there
Opera Garnier : Metro line 3, 7 or 8 : Opera - RER A : Auber
Opera Bastille : Metro line 1, 5 or 8 : Bastille

Informations, hours, entrance fees & acces map.
http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/

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Hotel In the neighborhood

Hotel Saint Petersbourg Opera Paris
Located in the heart of Paris, etween the Opera House and Madeleine and close to the Department Stores.

Hotel Marsollier Opera Paris.
3 star hotel near Louvre Museum, Opera and Tuileries.


Hotel ATN Opera Paris.
3 star hotel near the Opera, St Lazare Station and Department stores.