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150 Years of See and Be Seen at Paris’s Grandest Opera House
The grand opera house is home to the Paris Opera, but since the opening ... a gilded room with dripping chandeliers at the back of the stage, where season ticket holders would court ballerinas ...
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5 Freakishly Fascinating Facts About ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (1943), Svengoolie’s Movie of the Week
This week, beware of masked men and falling chandeliers, as Svengoolie shows ... and skulking around the Paris Opera House, Phantom of the Opera tells the story of the Phantom (Claude Rains ...
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'Phantom of the Opera' to haunt Orpheum: Live Wurlitzer organ music to accompany silent classic
The movie in question was Universal's "The Phantom of the Opera," an extravagant thriller filmed on huge studio stages that recreated the Paris Opera House ... drops a massive chandelier on ...