Paris Opera House
The Paris Opera House The Paris Opera House was built between 1861 and 1875. ... Napoleon then asked for an opera house with a covered side entrance. ... Many architects submitted their ideas, but in the end Charles Garnier was selected to be the architect of the Paris Opera House. “The House seats two thousand and has seventeen stories, taking up three acres of land. Seven of these are below the ground, and two contain pieces of the famous lake later depicted in Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. ... It cost over forty-seven million francs, and gave its creators and workers a massive headache” (“Information on the Paris Opera House”, 1). This quote by Genevieve Thiers describes the opera house and the hardships that we’re faced in building it. ... The Paris Opera House has a total area of 118,404 square feet, and the auditorium takes up about half of the total space.