The opera has 2,200 seats and Baron Haussmann was chosen by the - TopicsExpress



          

The opera has 2,200 seats and Baron Haussmann was chosen by the emperor to be in charge of the reconstruction. In 1861 there was an open competition and Charles Garnier won it. At that time he was 32 and he was an unknown architect. Even if the design of the building matched the emperor’s desire, the workers realized that the location the opera was supposed to be built on was kind of swampy, a subterranean lake flowed nearby.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:06:22 +0000

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