Two steps from Opera …
On the Grand Boulevards, facing the Opera Comique les Noces de Jeannette benefit from an exceptional situation: on the business & tourisme center, between the Stock Market( Gallery Lafayette and Printemps) and the Museum Grévin. Is aswell the district of the theatres (Les Bouffes Parisiens, La Michodière, le Théâtre des
Variétés, le Théâtre des Nouveautés, les
Folies Bergères) and Olympia.
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Opera Garnier - architectural masterpiece known throughout the world.
It was built on the orders of Napoleon III as part of the great Parisian reconstruction project carried out by Baron Haussmann. Was decorated u by a large number of artists (Peintres : Barrias, Benouville, Boulanger, Delaunay, Harpignies, Pils; Sculpteurs : Carpeaux, Chabaud, Carrier-Belleuse, Cavelier, Denéchaux, Dubray, Falguière, Guillaume, Gumery, Jacquemard, Jouffroy, Perraud, etc.)
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Surface area: 11,237 m2
Length: 173 m
Maximum width: 125 m
Height from the foundations to Apollo's lyre: 73.6 m
Grand Staircase: 30 m high
Grand Foyer: 18 m high, 54 m long, 13 m wide
Auditorium: 20 m high, 32 m deep, 31 m wide (maximum)
Weight of the chandelier: 8 tonnes
Stage: 60 m high consisting of a 45 m flytower and a 15 m under-stage area. 27 m deep and 48.5 m wide (proscenium width 16 m).
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