Charles Garnier's Opéra

The work of one man, the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it down to the last detail, the Opéra Garnier, built from 1861 to 1875, is a monument with an unclassifiable style. It features works by several artistes, including Paul Baudry, Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Louis-Félix Chabaud, and François Jouffroy. Avant-garde technology joins forces with rich and innovative decoration, in which the combination of gilding, colours, paintings, mosaics, and marbles composes, like a symphony, an unparalleled harmony. The Opéra Garnier invites the visitor on a dazzling adventure : music and the visual arts combine in this place under the aegis of the architecture. The Opéra Garnier ? An enchantment !