[Monaco] The Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Salle Garnier)

The extremely popular Salle Garnier Opera House in Monte Carlo, Monaco in Europe is a well known raising that was outlined in 1878 and opened by Sarah Bernhardt in 1879. The Salle Garnier is minor but stylishly enhanced with red and gold in the inside and sculputures throughout. This Opera House has hosted a variety of prominent opera performances as well as international ballet and classical concerts. While visiting Monte Carlo in Monaco, Europe be sure and book a seat in the Salle Garnier to get a chance to see one of the outstanding shows at the opera house.

During the renovation of the Salle Garnier during 2004/ 2005, the company presented operas at the Salle des Princes in the local Grimaldi Forum, a modern conference and performance facility where Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra regularly perform.

The Salle Garnier was finished in eight months, coordinated by the planner Charles Garnier, who in addition planned the Palais Garnier in Paris. The unique Salle Garnier was a precise reproduction in little of the Paris Opera House. It situates just 524. Enjoy its antecedent, it is in Belle Epoque style. It was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by Sarah Bernhardt dressed as a nymph. The first opera performed there was Robert Planquette's Le Chevalier Gaston on 8 February 1879, followed by three additional operas in the first season.

With the influence of the first director, Jules Cohen (who was instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti) and the fortunate combination of Raoul Gunsbourg, the new director from 1883, and Princess Alice, the opera-loving American wife of Charles III's successor, Albert I, the company was thrust onto the world's opera community stage. Gunsbourg remained for sixty years, directing such opening preparations as Hector Berlioz's La condemnation de Faust in the midst of 1893, and the first presence in January 1894 of the chivalrous Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, whose title part he had made for the musical show's debut in Italy.

Apart from Massenet, composers whose works had their first performances at Monte Carlo included: Saint-Saëns (Hélène, 1904); Mascagni (Amica, 1905); and Puccini (La rondine, 1917). Indeed, since its inauguration, the theatre has hosted 45 world premiere productions of operas. René Blum was retained to found the Ballet de l'Opéra. The "Golden Age" of the Salle Garnier has passed, since small companies with small houses are not able to mount highly expensive productions. Nonetheless, the present day company still presents a season containing five or six operas.