The Palais Garnier was one of the most expensive building commissioned by Napoleon III during the Second Empire. After 14 years of construction, it opened to the public in 1875.

Tour Palais Garnier is ranked #16 out of 34 things to do in Paris. See pictures and our review of Tour Palais Garnier ... opera is due in part to its awe-inspiring Old-World interiors ...

Roger Federer paid a visit to the historic opera house, Palais Garnier, in Paris on Thursday, May 23. Federer posed for photos with the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Ballet and ...

From seeing a statue of Apollo close-up to walking through secret passageways, a behind the scenes tour of Paris' Palais Garnier, ahead of the European Opera Days festival May 12 when parts of the ...

The bleakness of György Kurtág’s opera “Fin de partie” (“Endgame”), now playing at the Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, could be a commentary on that theater’s ornamental excess: The ...

Airbnb is offering a night for two in the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris this summer, transforming a box in the theatre into a plush bedroom with sweeping views of the famous auditorium.

Thirteen years later, in 1874, architect Charles Garnier’s neo-baroque masterpiece, Le Palais Garnier, was finally complete. But rumours of a vast, fish-filled lake swirling beneath the building ...

The historic opera house of the Paris Opera, the Palais Garnier, is to close its doors from mid-2027 for a two-year renovation, the Opera said on Thursday.. The closure of the almost 150-year-old ...

At the Palais Garnier, ballet met hip-hop and beyond in a glittering Cultural Olympiad presentation of Saïdo Lehlouh’s ever-evolving “Apaches.” ...