#l'opéra de paris

[frenchcurious]

Le Palais Garnier, Paris, France. - source Samphors Moun.

[famousinuniverse]

Eiffel Tower, Palais Garnier, Paris, France: The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Wikipedia

[emptymasks]

After years of saying I will make cute lil chibi European musical stickers I have finally done it! Forgive me for drawing more Der Tod's than any other character, I'm biased towards him. Hopefully I covered most of everyone's favourite Euro musicals.

They're spread across 2 listings because Etsy only lets you have a max of 70 options in the drop down. Volume 1 has German and Dutch musicals and volume 2 has French and Russian musicals.

All the musicals here: 3 Musketiers / 3 Musketiere, The Count of Monte Cristo / Der Graf von Monte Cristo, Der Besuch der Alten Dame, Elisabeth das Musical, Demon Onegin, The Last Trial, Ludwig2, Master and Margarita, Mozart das Musical, Mozart l'Opéra Rock, Notre Dame de Paris, Rebecca das Musical, Roméo et Juliette, Rudolf Affaire Mayerling, Schikaneder, Tanz der Vampire, Vivaldi.

I can’t link to my Etsy without risking Tumblr hiding the post from tag search results, but the link is in my pinned post, my carrd, I’m emptymasks on Etsy. Reblogs help support artists more than likes ❤️

[ID: Individual pixel art chibi drawings of 70 characters from various European musicals (listed above) that are available as stickers. These drawings are also available as badges where they are placed inside circles to show what they will look like as physical button badges, some of them with plain colour backgrounds and some with 1-3 different pride flags as examples of how you can customise the backgrounds.]

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonjour, bon Dimanche à tous ☕️ 🥐 🍊

Couple au café place de l'Opéra🗼 Paris 1960s

Photo de Loomis Dean

[hopefulkidshark]

Palais Garnier, Paris, France: The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Wikipedia

[dance-world]

Tommaso Spadaccino - Opéra national de Paris - photo by Lorenzo Lucca

[paperandsong]

Phantom of the Opera and the Paris Commune in Fic

For those who love Leroux canon and French history, a list of recommended Paris Commune-related Phantom of the Opera fic on AO3:

Pétroleuse by @paperandsong: Pre-Leroux Madame Giry burns it all down.

The Red Scarf by @maze-zen: A look at how the Commune affected the de Chagny and Daaé Families.

The Communist Road is Mine by @paperandsong: A relationship with an anarchist couple during the 1871 Paris Commune draws Erik into events he would typically want no part in. 

The Kiss by @battydings: A horror story with roots in the semaine sanglante.

Notre Dame des Lorettes by @catcorsair:  Erik loves and loses a city, heartbreaking and beautifully written.

Poetically Appropriate Versaillese by Anonymous: Erik doesn't know how to make friends. Sad.

1871 by @flora-gray: 2004 really was set in the most terrible year. The funniest fic on this list.

Phantoms of the Past by @stephanie_bean: Erik is dead, and Christine returns to bury him, but past secrets don't stay that way.

The Academes, Chapter 5: The Contractor, The Communarde, and The Catacombs by @antiquarianne

The Bloody Week by @shinyfire-0: Erik and Nandor/Nadir fondly remember the post-Commune pillaging in this What We Do in the Shadows crossover.

La beauté est dans la rue by @paperandsong: Christine and Raoul occupy the Odéon Theatre during the May 1968 student protests in Paris.

I Am My Own Revolution by @shinyfire-0: Erik is commissioned by Tommy Shelby to do a job in 1920s Birmingham, on the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

If you've never heard of the connection between the Phantom of the Opera and the 1871 Paris Commune, start here.

[thephantomessoftheopera]

Roméo et Juliette

The Opéra de la Bastille in Paris (the Garnier's sister venue) is currently putting on a production of Gounod's opera "Roméo et Juliette" that has some serious Phantom vibes going on!

"Roméo et Juliette" is one of the major operas that are referenced in Gaston Leroux's novel. It is cited in two scenes: In Chapter 2 "The New Marguerite", Christine sings some pieces from the opera, including the final death scene ("Seigneur! Seigneur! Pardonnez-nous!", which are the last words of the opera). But the most memorable scene is probably when in Chapter 10, Erik comes for Christine singing the wedding-night song, "Nuit d'hyménée", from which the line "La destinée t'enchaîne a moi sans retour" (originally "m'enchaîne a toi") is quoted three times as Christine follows Erik through the mirror and leaves a baffled Raoul behind in her dressing-room.

For the staging in this new production, the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier has been recreated and serves as the central setpiece for the entire action. The opera also opens with a masked-ball scene, and even the costumes are reminiscent of the "white, black, red" colour scheme of the masked ball scene in Leroux.

Other design elements of the Palais Garnier - even the balcony scene takes place on a balcony that looks just like the ones in the Garnier's entrance hall!

I am super happy to see one of the "Leroux operas" being staged in such a Phantom-y fashion! Too bad I will not be able to see it :((...

[opera-ghosts]

By Troy Lennon /Daily Telegraph; May 5, 2018

Gaston Leroux was inspired to write Phantom of the Opera after Palais Garnier accident

WHEN a counterweight crashed through the roof of a Paris opera house, Gaston Leroux stored the story away to help create the Phantom of the Opera.

THERE had long been rumours that a ghost walked the halls of the opera house in Paris, known as the Palais Garnier. Some dismissed it as superstition, but many believe that confirmation came on May 20, 1896, during a performance of the opera Helle, by Étienne-Joseph Floquet. Act one had just finished and the audience had called for an encore from soprano Madame Rose Caron. As she finished her aria a loud noise was heard through the auditorium, followed by a crash and a cloud of dust.

A fire in the roof of the opera house had melted through a wire holding a counterweight for the chandelier. The weight had crashed through the ceiling injuring several people and killing Madame Chomette, the concierge of a boarding house, who was watching her first opera.

Some newspapers reported that the chandelier itself had crashed to the stage. Gaston Leroux, a journalist working for the newspaper Le Matin, read about the accident and used it, and the rumours of a ghost, as inspiration for a story about a disfigured man who menaces the cast and stage crew of an opera company at the Palais Garnier. Titled Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, it was first serialised in the periodical Le Gaulois in 1909 and as a novel in 1910. It was published in English as The Phantom of the Opera.

Leroux, who was born 157 years ago, was mostly known for his detective fiction, which inspired writers such as Agatha Christie. Yet outside France he is really only known for the Phantom, a story that has inspired plays, films and a hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born on May 6, 1868. His parents were travelling in a coach from Le Mans to Normandy when they had to stop so his mother could be taken to a nearby house to deliver the baby.

His father was a wealthy shipbuilder and Leroux lived a comfortable childhood, with a love of sailing, fishing and swimming. Straight out of school he went to work as a clerk in lawyer’s office, but spent his spare time writing stories and poetry. He was then sent to university to study law, winning awards and prizes and giving every indication that he was headed for a glittering law career.

But when his father died in 1889, leaving him a million francs, Leroux sank into a life of self-indulgence, gambling, going to the theatre and partying so hard he ended up broke after six months.

Faced with the need to work and frustrated by the legal system, Leroux pursued writing, taking jobs as a theatre critic and court reporter. By 1890 he had become a full-time journalist, impressing his editors by using forged credentials to score an interview with a high-profile prisoner awaiting trial.

His expertise in law also saw him reporting on the Dreyfus Affair, when anti-semitic elements in the French army conspired to accuse Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus of espionage, seeing him drummed out of the army and sentenced to life in prison in 1894. Leroux described Dreyfus’s trial as a farce and was one of the many journalists who campaigned to free Dreyfus.

Leroux also became a foreign correspondent travelling the world, including to Africa and Antarctica. He even reported on the 1905 revolution in Russia, although at times using his flair for creative writing to embellish his copy. At the time he could be relied on to boost circulation with his colourful stories.

But Leroux tired of being at the beck and call of editors, decided to concentrate purely on his forays into fiction. He had been publishing short stories in newspapers for years, so in 1907 he published his first novel, Le mystère de la chambre jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room), introducing amateur sleuth journalist Joseph Rouletabille. Inspired partly by his own experiences as a court reporter and Arthur Conan Doyle’s “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes, it was light on action but struck the right balance of mystery and intellect to appeal to French readers.

He followed this with many other mystery novels featuring Rouletabille but, in between, he wrote other novels, including The Phantom of the Opera.

After several of his works were adapted to film he realised the cinematic potential of his fiction and in 1919 formed a film company with another writer, Arthur Bernede, to make films of his own novels and plays.

In 1922 Leroux gave a copy of Phantom to the head of Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle, while Laemmle was visiting Paris. It resulted in the 1925 Lon Chaney adaptation, which made Leroux’s name famous outside France and helped him pay off gambling debts.

Some of his other works were also adapted to film in the US, but his detective works, despite winning fans like Christie, were not as popular in the English-speaking world.

Leroux died in Nice in 1927.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Exit of the metro station at the Place de l'Opéra Square in Paris

French vintage postcard, mailed to Orléans

[frenchcurious]

Le Café de la Paix, Place de L'Opéra à Paris en 1964. - source Harry Levy.

[famousinuniverse]

Opéra Garnier, Paris, France: The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Wikipedia

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[o-link]

Christian Lemaire - Le café de la Paix, place de l'Opéra, Paris, 1994

[naiveatlas]

[dance-world]

Tommaso Spadaccino - Opéra national de Paris - photo by Julien Benhamou