An Opera for an Empire

Name: An Opera for an Empire
Released: 2021-01-23

10.020211h 30mDocumentary • History

"The epic story of the construction of the legendary Paris Opera House"

Overview

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 bourgeo...