An Opera for an Empire

Un opéra pour un empire

Also known as I fantasmi dell'Opéra Garnier: i segreti di una meraviglia imperiale, Una ópera para un imperio, Building the Paris Opera, Glanz und Pracht - Die Pariser Oper Garnier

“The epic story of the construction of the legendary Paris Opera House”

The amazing and epic story of how the Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was built from 1852 to 1870, thanks to the decisive impulse of the French Emperor Napoleon III; a story that is also that of the birth of a golden age for orchestral music, opera and ballet; of the rise of the urban bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.