When visiting Paris, I highly recommend a trip to watch a performance in the Opera. This is where you can relive the old times, where people dress up in special evening gowns, the classy employees escort you to your seat and where you end up sitting in a private balcony loge.
Le Grand Foyer
The Grand Staircase
View into the main entrance
The beautiful chandellier with the painting on the roof from Marc Chagall
In 1896, one of the counterweights for the grand chandelier fell, killing one. This, as well as the underground lake, cellars, and other elements of Opéra Garnier, inspired Gaston Leroux in 1909 to write his classic Gothic novel, The Phantom of the Opera.
One of the employees of this building couldn't have said it better: "c'est le grand spectacle." Indeed it was. It was my last evening of Paris, and I wouldn't leave without snapping a few more pictures of this beautiful city.
Buste from French composer Daniel Auber
And a sight from the beautiful Champs Élysées
That was it... Next morning an early wake-up and on my way to Gare du Nord :( Back to Amsterdam
Back home >_<
All good things must come to an end. In all honesty I can definitely say that I will return to this magnificent city.
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