Music Monday

 

On a wall inside the Opéra metro station.

 

The dance

The original of this sculpture on the façade of Opéra Garnier is in the Orsay Museum.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
La Danse (1868)

Behind the scenes: Opéra Garnier #2

 Marc Chagall's rotund ceiling in the theater teems with musical allegory.

Palais Garnier / L'Opéra de Paris
8 rue Scribe 75009

- More photos in upcoming July newsletter -

Behind the scenes: Opéra Garnier #1

Recently I was invited to a behind-the-scenes look at Charles Garnier's Second Empire masterpiece and setting for the 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera.

Below: section of the infamous see-and-be-seen grand staircase's grandeur

 

Palais Garnier / L'Opéra de Paris

8 rue Scribe 75009

Downhill

The Paris Opera House is an almost direct walk down this sloping street off rue des Abbesses.