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An Opera for an Empire

Genres

Documentary , History

Duration

90 min

Director

Patrick Cabouat

Rating

10.0

Release Date

January 22, 2021

An Opera for an Empire

Original title: Un opéra pour un empire

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Synopsis An Opera for an Empire

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 bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.