The largest of the auditoriums, 1200m2, 20m high, 32m deep and 40m wide, offers 2,750 seats with a view of the stage always free, without any restrictions. The building occupies an area of 150.000m2 and features numerous spaces accessible to the public: The National Opera of Paris, is a massive structure, 80m high, 50m above graund and 30 underground, with a curved and glazed exterior facade, each level consists of 22,000 square meters. For its construction was necessary to close the station with the same name dating from 1859 and demolish an old exhibition hall for contemporary art located on site.ĭue to the great success of the opera by the public, the Palais Garnier was insufficient, it was the Paris first building dedicated to these events in particular, reason that led to the then president of France conceive the project of creating a new space that would complement the Opera and classical existing permit while creating a modern space not only architecturally but also technologically sound level, sound, lights and all the advances available for a show of this nature. The main entrance is via the Rue de Lyon 120, 12th District, Paris, France. The new Opera House was located at the Place of the Bastille, historic Plaza where the July 14th, 1789, the French Revolution took place, resulting destroyed the fortress of the XIV century.
Despite the transfer is still called the Palais Garnier Paris Opera popularly and both buildings are complementary.Īmong the 744 projects submitted was winning the draft submitted by the architect Carlos Ott, project specific function in addition to its proposed new life to the neighborhood, and whose construction began in 1984 must be completed for the celebrations of July 14, 1989. Since 1875, when it opened, was called Opera – National Academy of Music, until in 1989 the Opera Company moved to the new building of the Bastille, staying in the old Academy building.
Until that time the French capital offered performances characteristic nineteenth century building known as the Palais Garnier or Paris Opera in the IX district of the French capital, whose construction was commissioned by Napoleon III to the architect Charles Garnier. To mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution, the French President at the time, Francois Mitterrand, convened in 1983 an international competition in order to design a new opera for Paris, the Bastille Opera House, which would be located in the Plaza del same name, with the historic “July Column” as a framework.
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