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 Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 am
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:11 am
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 3:31 pm
Wow. I didn't know half of that. That's really cool.
~R.H.
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:27 pm
Kewl. Me not know some of this...but very kewl.
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:38 am
Wow...i wish we could make this thread a sticky...tis good info to know!
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:59 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:32 am
Yes! Now I finally know the name of that building! Thanks.
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:31 am
It's fairly standard information, but a good to have a place of reference!
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:03 pm
fuokohopin It's fairly standard information, but a good to have a place of reference! I just thought it might be handy, it wasn't hard to dig up. Although the information on the architecture might be a little harder to find without some digging, I just used my notes from my Intro to Art course. Leslie Dawn is a wonderful professor, I did really well in his class. I nearly died looking at his slides. It basically clinched the fact that I wanted to see the building in all its gaudy glory.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:58 am
LaBelleIsolde I just thought it might be handy, it wasn't hard to dig up. Although the information on the architecture might be a little harder to find without some digging, I just used my notes from my Intro to Art course. Leslie Dawn is a wonderful professor, I did really well in his class. I nearly died looking at his slides. It basically clinched the fact that I wanted to see the building in all its gaudy glory. It's very handy and oh, I know: I always die whenever I see shots of it, purposefully or accidentally in any film/book/etc. Unfortunately, all I know comes from misadventures into the library and not from any standard art course, per se, which is a pity as I'd love to take one. Still, it really is a spectacular building that I would kill to see. It's one of the first things I'm seeing when/if I ever get to Paris--forget le Tour d'Eiffel and the Louvre!
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:44 am
interesting, i didnt know about half of that information... thank you blaugh *Sigh* its such a pretty Opera House isnt it?
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:09 pm
*wants to see in person* If I ever go to Paris, I'll probably end up wasting fifty pictures just on that opera house... It's so pretty!
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:43 am
Mind if I post a few pictures? (Actually MANY pictures.........)
These are copy-pasted from my European Phantom Trip Log in another phanguild. With their original... um... caption things.
6/19/06 Tour Day
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wc8zm.jpg View from the bus.
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wcb2t.jpg Ah, nothing like a good sit-down on a street gate near the Opera.
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wcf20.jpg One of the two angels.
http://i5.tinypic.com/14wczty.jpg "I'm heeeeeere!!!!"
http://i5.tinypic.com/14wd0mv.jpg View from the entrance hall.
http://i5.tinypic.com/14wd4b7.jpg MASQUERAAAAAAAADE!!!! Or not...
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wd37b.jpg Season Tickets room. The people in the middle are my mom and dad. XD
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wd62p.jpg Garnier signed the ceiling of the Season Tickets room. In a circle.
http://i6.tinypic.com/14wd7qa.jpg Garnier designed these urns himself!
Tinypic just quit on me, so I switched to ImageShack.
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/2364/dscn25791ty.jpg The library. Lots of opera.
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3564/dscn25865iy.jpg Fanciest room ever!: Le Grand Foyer.
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/816/dscn25934xe.jpg The Salon du Soleil. Sadly, I didn't get a good picture of the Salon de la Lune because the absence of flash made it look bad.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/476/dscn25945xx.jpg The Refreshments room, chandelier et al.
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/8421/dscn25994vx.jpg Mom and me above the Grand Staircase.
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/1019/dscn26117sw.jpg Garnier's memorial thing and the imperial entrance.
6/21/06 Opera Night
http://i5.tinypic.com/15gdowi.jpg Ah, fine opera!
http://i3.tinypic.com/15gdp46.jpg Chandelieeeeeeer!!!! (Now THAT'S what I call ELABORATE!)
http://i5.tinypic.com/15gdpir.jpg A view of the back part of the theater from floor 4 box 17
http://i3.tinypic.com/15gdpx2.jpg View of the Grand Staircase from above
http://i3.tinypic.com/15gdrfk.jpg Oooooh spoooooky!
http://i4.tinypic.com/15gdrvb.jpg Box Five there in the center of the photo
http://i5.tinypic.com/15gds3t.jpg Closer
http://i5.tinypic.com/15gdsav.jpg Closer
http://i3.tinypic.com/15gdslw.jpg View from the ampitheater
http://i5.tinypic.com/15gdsvk.jpg Music in the night (Augh, I look horrible)
http://i3.tinypic.com/15gdta8.jpg I owe a lot to the Paris metro system.
And then there are the little PotO comments I picked up from the tourguide book:Quote: Water tank under the Opéra, inspiration for Gaston Leroux's subterranean lake in The Phantom of the Opera. Quote: Although it [the chandelier] has never fallen on one of the spectators' heads, one of the counterweights that used to support it came loose and crushed one woman in the audience seated at no. 13 in the fourth balcony. This accident must have inspired Gaston Leroux in one of the most famous episodes of The Phantom of the Opera. Remember, too, that the "phantom's box" was no. 5, the first facing stage right.
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:03 pm
wow. That is very interesting. My family and I went to Paris. I wish I knew where that had been.
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:25 am
Did you know the Opera House described in the book was seventeen stories.
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