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Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (pronounced [ʃaʁl ɡaʁnje]; 6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Charles Garnier (born November 6, 1825, Paris, France—died August 3, 1898, Paris) was a French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator of the Paris Opera House. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1842 and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1848 to study in Italy.
Awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1848, he spent a formative period in Italy at the Villa Medicis. On his return to France, Charles Garnier was hired by the City of Paris for a number of positions in the 5th and 6th arrondissements.
Jan 23, 2011 · The Paris Opera, or Palais Garnier, is the most famous auditorium in the world. With 2,200 seats, this opera house designed by Charles Garnier is admired as one of the most prominent...
For Charles Garnier, an architect of the Ecole des beaux-arts, it was a setting for a ritual in which the spectators were also actors, participants in the rite of social encounter, seeing and being seen.
Initially referred to as le nouvel Opéra de Paris (the new Paris Opera), it soon became known as the Palais Garnier, "in acknowledgment of its extraordinary opulence" and the architect Charles Garnier's plans and designs, which are representative of the Napoleon III style.
Major partners of the Paris Opera’s 350th anniversary. Timepiece of the Paris Opera. Sponsor of La Traviata. Partner of the Opera’s 350th Anniversary Gala. Architecture. Unusual. Stage. Carte blanche.
