It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris opened ... before guests reach the marble staircase, the baroque sculptures, the inlaid golden mosaics and the elaborately ...

Aerial view of the Palais Garnier, Paris, February 10, 1929. AP It stands at the top of Paris's Avenue de l'Opéra, its facade a sculpted memory of harmony, music, opera and dance, whose nude ...

Just steps from the iconic Opera Garnier in the heart of town ... honoring existing design features like a monumental Art Deco staircase that had stood for nearly a century.