The Monte-Carlo Opera by Charles Garnier, an exuberant concert hall built in record time
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The seaside facade of the casino and the Opera House designed by architect Charles Garnier. RIEGER Bertrand / Société des Bains de Mer de Monaco/hemis.fr
To mark the bicentenary of the architect's birth and the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the Paris Opera, La Croix explores his work along the Mediterranean coast. A second stop is Monaco, where Charles Garnier built a concert hall in record time, a miniature replica of the Paris Opera. (2/3)
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I subscribeIt took Charles Garnier nearly fifteen years to complete the construction of the Paris Opera, begun under the Second Empire and completed under the Third Republic. For the Monte-Carlo Opera in Monaco, things would go much faster. In 1878, Marie Blanc, propelled to the head of the Casino after the death of her husband, François, a year earlier, gave the architect barely six months to build a proper concert hall to replace the small ballroom. Until then, the orchestra had performed on a wooden platform to entertain players between card games.
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