The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra Garnier, the Paris Opera House, and the Opera Populaire, is an opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France. It is the primary setting for a majority of the versions of The Phantom of the Opera.
History[]
The opera house was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 by Emperor Napoleon III. It is now "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica", due at least in part due to its appearance in Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.