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The Accountant
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Gavin O'Connor
Produced by
Lynette Howell Taylor
Mark Williams
Written by
Bill Dubuque
Starring
Ben Affleck
Anna Kendrick
J. K. Simmons
Jon Bernthal
Jeffrey Tambor
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
John Lithgow
Music by
Mark Isham
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey
Edited by
Richard Pearson
Production
companies
Electric City Entertainment
Advanced Underwriting Concepts
RatPac Entertainment
Zero Gravity Management
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
October 10, 2016 (2016-10-10) (TCL Chinese Theatre)
October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) (United States)
Running time
128 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$44 million[2]
Box office
$155.2 million[2]
The Accountant is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor, written by Bill Dubuque and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and John Lithgow. The storyline follows a small-town Illinois certified public accountant with high-functioning autism[3] who actually makes his living uncooking the books of dangerous criminal organizations around the world that are experiencing internal embezzlement.
The Accountant premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2016, and saw its European premiere in London on October 17.[4] The film was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 14, 2016. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $155 million worldwide. In 2017, according to MPAA's end of year report, it is the top film for both disc and digital rentals.[5]
A sequel is currently in development.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Fight choreography
3.2 Marketing
4 Release
4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical response
4.3 Accolades
5 Sequel
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
As a child, Christian Wolff is diagnosed with a high-functioning form of autism at Harbor Neuroscience, where he meets the doctor's daughter, Justine. Chris's father declines the offer for his son to stay at a sensory friendly environment, believing that Chris must overcome the hardships inherent in his condition, but Chris's overwhelmed mother abandons their family. Afraid that others will exploit his son, Chris's father—a US Army PSYOP officer—begins a brutal regimen of stoicism and martial arts training for both him and his brother, Braxton.
In the present, Chris works as a forensic accountant from a small strip mall office in Plainfield, Illinois. He unmasks insider financial deceptions, often for criminal and terrorist enterprises. Chris's clients interact with Chris through the Voice, an unidentified woman who calls him "Dreamboat". He exposes himself to loud music and flashing lights while abusing his own shinbone on a daily basis to inure himself to sensory overload.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) Director Ray King pursues Chris, known to them as "the Accountant". King recruits Treasury data analyst Marybeth Medina to help him locate the Accountant. Her leads include Chris's cover names, a recording from his killing of nine members of the Gambino crime family, and some photos.
Chris is hired to audit Living Robotics after the company's founder and CEO, Lamar Blackburn and his sister Rita, learn of discrepancies from in-house accountant Dana Cummings. Chris finds that over $61 million has been embezzled from the company. CFO Ed Chilton, who is diabetic, is forced by a hitman to commit suicide from an insulin overdose. Lamar dismisses Chris, claiming Chilton killed himself because of the investigation of the embezzlement, leaving Chris very distraught because he cannot finish the audit.
In a flashback scene, the extent of Chris and his brother's relentless martial arts training instilled by their father as a child is revealed, suggesting that he is an adept fighter in the present day.
As a result of his superior self defense capabilities, assassins fail to kill Chris; the last reveals that Dana is the next target. Chris saves her before taking her to his storage unit, containing an Airstream Panamerica with artwork and other valuables, which he uses to quickly flee in when necessary. As they talk, he realizes that the embezzlement at Living Robotics is a scheme like Crazy Eddie's; money stolen from the company is returned to it, boosting profits and increasing the company's valuation as it prepares for an IPO. When Chris goes to confront Rita he finds her dead, exposing Lamar as the embezzler.
Medina isolates Chris's voice from the recording of the Gambino killing, hearing him repeating the nursery rhyme Solomon Grundy. She learns that his cadence is reminiscent of those with autism, and that Chris's aliases are famed mathematicians, including his current identity, Christian Wolff. Using IRS records, she finds his Illinois office.
Government agents search Chris's heavily secured home. King explains to Medina that Chris was imprisoned at Leavenworth because of a fight at his estranged mother's funeral, where his father was killed protecting Chris. He learned accounting from Francis Silverberg, a Gambino family accountant who became an FBI informant. King was Silverberg's handler, but his inaction led to the informant being brutally killed; King was staking out the Gambinos when Chris came to avenge his mentor. Chris could have killed King, but let him go after asking if he was a good father. King began getting information from the Voice when criminals violated Chris's moral code, and King became director of FinCen. King tells Medina someone has to take over when he retires. The phone rings, and the Voice tells Medina about Living Robotics.
Chris goes to Lamar's mansion, where the hitman and his men await. During the battle, the hitman recognizes Chris repeating the nursery rhyme and reveals that he is Chris's brother Braxton; they have not seen each other since Chris's imprisonment. Braxton attacks Chris, as he is both resentful over his brother's estrangement from him and blames him for their father's death. During a pause in their fight Lamar arrogantly interrupts; Chris shoots him, ending the battle. Chris amicably agrees to meet Braxton in a week, saying he will find him.
As another set of parents visits Harbor Neuroscience with their child, the boy meets Justine, still a patient there; she is the Voice, and Chris funds the center with his bookkeeping profits. Dana receives a Jackson Pollock painting she saw in the trailer, as Chris drives out of town with the Airstream in tow.
Cast[edit]
Ben Affleck as Christian "Chris" Wolff
Seth Lee as Young Chris
Anna Kendrick as Dana Cummings
J. K. Simmons as Raymond "Ray" King
Jon Bernthal as Braxton
Jake Presley as Young Braxton
Jeffrey Tambor as Francis Silverberg
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Marybeth Medina
John Lithgow as Lamar Blackburn
Jean Smart as Rita Blackburn
Andy Umberger as Ed Chilton
Alison Wright as Justine
Izzy Fenech as Young Justine
Robert C. Treveiler as Chris' father
Mary Kraft as Chris' mother
Gary Basaraba as Don
Production[edit]
On November 12, 2014, Variety reported that Anna Kendrick was in early talks to co-star in the film, alongside Affleck.[6] Later that day, J. K. Simmons was also announced as being in talks to join the cast.[7] On November 14, 2014, Jon Bernthal was also in talks.[8] On January 6, 2015, Variety reported that Cynthia Addai-Robinson was added to the cast.[9] On January 14, 2015, Jeffrey Tambor[10] and John Lithgow[11] were added to the cast of the film. Lithgow had previously appeared in another thriller about autism, Silent Fall (1994).
Filming began on January 19, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.[12][13] On March 16–20, filming was taking place at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[14] The film ends with the Accountant driving on Bethany Bridge over Lake Allatoona, Georgia.
Fight choreography[edit]
The action fighting sequences in the film featured the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat.[15][16][17]
Marketing[edit]
On July 9, 2015, a year before the film's release, it had received graphic novelization published by Vertigo, a limited comic book imprint owned by Warner Bros. Pictures.[18]
Release[edit]
The film was released on October 14, 2016.[19] Before that, Warner Bros. had scheduled it for January 29, 2016, later moving it to October 7, 2016, before moving it back another week.[20][21]
Box office[edit]
The Accountant grossed $86.3 million in the United States and Canada and $68.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $155.2 million, against a production budget of $44 million.[2]
The Accountant was released alongside Max Steel and Kevin Hart: What Now?, and was expected to gross $20–25 million from 3,332 theaters in its opening weekend, although the studio was projecting a conservative $15 million opening.[22] The film made $1.35 million from its Thursday night previews, more than Affleck's Gone Girl ($1.2 million) in 2014. It grossed $9.1 million on its first day and $24.7 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and was the second highest-debut for a thriller of Affleck's career, behind Gone Girl ($37.5 million).[23] In its second weekend, the film grossed $13.6 million (a drop of 44.8%), finishing 4th at the box office.[24]
Critical response[edit]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 52% based on 254 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Accountant writes off a committed performance from Ben Affleck, leaving viewers with a scattershot action thriller beset by an array of ill-advised deductions."[25] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[26] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale,[27] while comScore reported audiences gave an 84% overall positive score and a 64% definite recommend.[23]
Vince Mancini of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, writing, "It’s transparent in its attempt both to pimp a future franchise and give autistic kids their own superhero. There’s a genuine sweetness to the latter that converts me on the former. Headshots, math problems, and pained social interactions? Sign me up. Of the two movies Ben Affleck has been in so far this year, The Accountant and Batman V Superman, The Accountant has by far the most franchise potential."[28] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, saying: "Madness abounds in The Accountant, an intense, intricate, darkly amusing and action-infused thriller that doesn’t always add up but who cares, it’s BIG FUN."[29]
Richard Brody of The New Yorker panned the film, stating: "This thrill-free thriller...piles up plotlines like an overbuilt house of cards that comes crashing down at the first well-earned guffaw of ridicule."[30]
Accolades[edit]
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
Ref(s)
Jupiter Awards March 29, 2017 Best International Film The Accountant Nominated [31]
Best International Actor Ben Affleck Nominated
Saturn Awards June 28, 2017 Best Thriller Film The Accountant Nominated [32]
Sequel[edit]
In June 2017, it was announced Warner Bros. was developing a sequel, with Affleck, Dubuque and O’Connor all scheduled to return.[33]
See also[edit]
Autism spectrum disorders in the media
Mental calculators in fiction
References[edit]
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Palais Garnier
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Palais Garnier
Opéra Garnier
The façade of the Palais Garnier opera house
General information
Type
Opera house
Architectural style
Second Empire and Beaux-Arts[1]
Location
Place de l'Opéra,
9th arrondissement,
Paris, France
Coordinates
48°52′19″N 2°19′54″E / 48.87194°N 2.33167°E / 48.87194; 2.33167Coordinates: 48°52′19″N 2°19′54″E / 48.87194°N 2.33167°E / 48.87194; 2.33167
Construction started
August 1861[2]
Inaugurated
5 January 1875
Cost
36,010,571.04 francs
(as of 20 November 1875)[3]
Height
56 metres (184 ft) from ground level to the apex of the stage flytower; 32 metres (105 ft) to the top of the facade[4]
Dimensions
Other dimensions
154.9 metres (508 ft) long; 70.2 metres (230 ft) wide at the lateral galleries; 101.2 metres (332 ft) wide at the east and west pavilions; 10.13 metres (33.2 ft) from ground level to bottom of the cistern under the stage[5]
Technical details
Structural system
masonry walls; concealed iron floors, vaults, and roofs[6]
Design and construction
Architect
Charles Garnier
Other information
Seating capacity
1,900
The Palais Garnier (pronounced [palɛ ɡaʁnje] French (help·info)) is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was called the Salle des Capucines, because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier, in recognition of its opulence and its architect, Charles Garnier. The theatre is also often referred to as the Opéra Garnier (French (help·info)) and historically was known as the Opéra de Paris or simply the Opéra,[7] as it was the primary home of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when the Opéra Bastille opened at the Place de la Bastille.[8] The Paris Opera now mainly uses the Palais Garnier for ballet.
The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica."[9] This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular 1986 musical.[9] Another contributing factor is that among the buildings constructed in Paris during the Second Empire, besides being the most expensive,[10] it has been described as the only one that is "unquestionably a masterpiece of the first rank."[11] This opinion is far from unanimous however: the 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier once described it as "a lying art" and contended that the "Garnier movement is a décor of the grave".[12]
The Palais Garnier also houses the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra de Paris (Paris Opera Library-Museum), although the Library-Museum is no longer managed by the Opera and is part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.[13] The museum is included in unaccompanied tours of the Palais Garnier.[14]
Contents
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1 Architecture and style
1.1 Exterior
1.1.1 Main facade
1.1.2 Stage flytower
1.1.3 Pavillon de l'Empereur
1.1.4 Pavillon des Abonnés
1.2 Interior
1.2.1 Grand staircase
1.2.2 Grand foyer
1.2.3 Auditorium
1.2.3.1 Organ
1.2.4 Restaurant
2 History
2.1 Selection of a site
2.2 Design competition
2.3 Opéra Agence
2.4 Laying of the foundation
2.5 Model
2.6 Change in name
2.7 1870–1871
2.8 1872–1873
2.9 Completion
2.10 History of the house since opening
3 Stamps
4 Influence abroad
5 Artwork
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Architecture and style[edit]
The opera was constructed in what Garnier himself is said to have told the Empress Eugenie was "Napoleon III"[15] The Napoleon III style was highly eclectic, and borrowed from many historical sources; the opera house included elements from the Baroque, the classicism of Palladio, and Renaissance architecture, artfully blended together.[16]. These were combined with axial symmetry and modern techniques and materials, including the use of an iron framework, which had been pioneered in other Napoleon III buildings, including the Bibliotheque Nationale and the markets of Les Halles.[17][18]
The facade and the interior followed the Napoleon III style principle of leaving no space without decoration.[19] Garnier used polychromy, or a variety of colors, for theatrical effect, achieved different varieties of marble and stone, porphyry, and gilded bronze. The facade of the Opera used seventeen different kinds of material, arranged in very elaborate multicolored marble friezes, columns, and lavish statuary, many of which portray deities of Greek mythology.[20]
Plan of the Palais Garnier
Exterior[edit]
Main facade[edit]
Gumery's L'Harmonie (1869), atop the left avant-corps of the façade, is 7.5 metres (25 ft) of gilt copper electrotype
The principal facade is on the south side of the building, overlooking the Place de l'Opéra and terminates the perspective along the Avenue de l'Opéra. Fourteen painters, mosaicists and seventy-three sculptors participated in the creation of its ornamentation.
The two gilded figural groups, Charles Gumery's L'Harmonie (Harmony) and La Poésie (Poetry), crown the apexes of the principal facade's left and right avant-corps. They are both made of gilt copper electrotype.
The bases of the two avant-corps are decorated (from left to right) with four major multi-figure groups sculpted by François Jouffroy (Poetry, also known as Harmony),[21] Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (Instrumental Music), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (The Dance, criticised for indecency), and Jean-Joseph Perraud (Lyrical Drama). The facade also incorporates other work by Gumery, Alexandre Falguière, and others.[22]
Gilded galvanoplastic bronze busts of many of the great composers are located between the columns of the theatre's front façade and depict, from left to right, Rossini, Auber, Beethoven, Mozart, Spontini, Meyerbeer, and Halévy. On the left and right lateral returns of the front facade are busts of the librettists Eugène Scribe and Philippe Quinault, respectively.[22]
Stage flytower[edit]
The sculptural group Apollo, Poetry, and Music, located at the apex of the south gable of the stage flytower, is the work of Aimé Millet, and the two smaller bronze Pegasus figures at either end of the south gable are by Eugène-Louis Lequesne.
Facade of the Palais Garnier with labels indicating the locations of various sculptures
Pavillon de l'Empereur[edit]
Also known as the Rotonde de l'Empereur, this group of rooms is located on the left (west) side of the building and was designed to allow secure and direct access by the Emperor via a double ramp to the building. When the Empire fell, work stopped, leaving unfinished dressed stonework. It now houses the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra de Paris (Paris Opera Library-Museum) which is home to nearly 600,000 documents including 100,000 books, 1,680 periodicals, 10,000 programs, letters, 100,000 photographs, sketches of costumes and sets, posters and historical administrative records.
Pavillon des Abonnés[edit]
Located on the right (east) side of the building as a counterpart to the Pavillon de l'Empereur, this pavilion was designed to allow subscribers (abonnés) direct access from their carriages to the interior of the building. It is covered by a 13.5-metre diameter dome. Paired obelisks mark the entrances to the rotunda on the north and the south.
West facade and the Pavillon de l'Empereur
East facade and the Pavillon des Abonnés
Interior[edit]
The Grand Staircase
The interior consists of interweaving corridors, stairwells, alcoves and landings, allowing the movement of large numbers of people and space for socialising during intermission. Rich with velvet, gold leaf, and cherubim and nymphs, the interior is characteristic of Baroque sumptuousness.
Grand staircase[edit]
Monumental stairway of the Palais Garnier opera in Paris
The building features a large ceremonial staircase of white marble with a balustrade of red and green marble, which divides into two divergent flights of stairs that lead to the Grand Foyer. Its design was inspired by Victor Louis's grand staircase for the Théâtre de Bordeaux. The pedestals of the staircase are decorated with female torchères, created by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. The ceiling above the staircase was painted by Isidore Pils to depict The Triumph of Apollo, The Enchantment of Music Deploying its Charms, Minerva Fighting Brutality Watched by the Gods of Olympus, and The City of Paris Receiving the Plan of the New Opéra. When the paintings were first fixed in place two months before the opening of the building, it was obvious to Garnier that they were too dark for the space. With the help of two of his students, Pils had to rework the canvases while they were in place overhead on the ceiling and, at the age of 61, he fell ill. His students had to finish the work, which was completed the day before the opening and the scaffolding was removed.[23]
Grand foyer[edit]
This hall, 18 meters high, 154 meters long and 13 meters wide, was designed to act as a drawing room for Paris society. It was restored in 2004. Its ceiling was painted by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry and represents various moments in the history of music. The foyer opens into an outside loggia, at each end of which are the Salon de la Lune and Salon du Soleil.
ceilings of the grand foyer of palais Garnier, opera of Paris
ceilings of the grand foyer
The Grand Foyer
Part of the ceiling of the Grand Foyer with paintings by Paul Baudry: the central rectangular panel is Music, while the oval panel at the western end is Comedy.
Auditorium[edit]
The auditorium has a traditional Italian horseshoe shape and can seat 1,979. The stage is the largest in Europe and can accommodate as many as 450 artists. The canvas house curtain was painted to represent a draped curtain, complete with tassels and braid.
Auditorium
Transverse section at the auditorium and pavilions
The ceiling area which surrounds the chandelier was originally painted by Jules Eugène Lenepveu. In 1964 a new ceiling painted by Marc Chagall was installed on a removable frame over the original. It depicts scenes from operas by 14 composers – Mussorgsky, Mozart, Wagner, Berlioz, Rameau, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Adam, Bizet, Verdi, Beethoven, and Gluck. Although praised by some, others feel Chagall's work creates "a false note in Garnier's carefully orchestrated interior."[24]
Auditorium chandelier
The seven-ton bronze and crystal chandelier was designed by Garnier. Jules Corboz prepared the model, and it was cast and chased by Lacarière, Delatour & Cie. The total cost came to 30,000 gold francs. The use of a central chandelier aroused controversy, and it was criticised for obstructing views of the stage by patrons in the fourth level boxes and views of the ceiling painted by Eugène Lenepveu.[25] Garnier had anticipated these disadvantages but provided a lively defence in his 1871 book Le Théâtre: "What else could fill the theatre with such joyous life? Who else could offer the variety of forms that we have in the pattern of the flames, in these groups and tiers of points of light, these wild hues of gold flecked with bright spots, and these crystalline highlights?"[26]
On 20 May 1896, one of the chandelier's counterweights broke free and burst through the ceiling into the auditorium, killing a concierge. This incident inspired one of the more famous scenes in Gaston Leroux's classic 1910 gothic novel The Phantom of the Opera.[25]
Originally the chandelier was raised up through the ceiling into the cupola over the auditorium for cleaning, but now it is lowered. The space in the cupola was used in the 1960s for opera rehearsals, and in the 1980s was remodelled into two floors of dance rehearsal space. The lower floor consists of the Salle Nureïev (Nureyev) and the Salle Balanchine, and the upper floor, the Salle Petipa.[25]
Organ[edit]
L'Opéra Restaurant opened in 2011
The grand organ was built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll for use during lyrical works. It has been out of service for several decades.
Restaurant[edit]
Main article: L'Opéra restaurant
Garnier had originally planned to install a restaurant in the opera house; however, for budgetary reasons, it was not completed in the original design.
On the third attempt to introduce it since 1875, a restaurant was opened on the eastern side of the building in 2011. L'Opéra Restaurant was designed by French architect Odile Decq. The chef was Christophe Aribert;[27] in October 2015, Guillame Tison-Malthé became the new head chef.[28] The restaurant, which has three different spaces and a large outside terrace, is accessible to the general public.
History[edit]
Two proposed sites for a new opera house, c. 1856, with alternative routes for a broad avenue leading from the Louvre to the new theatre (the future Avenue de l'Opéra)
Selection of a site[edit]
In 1821 the Opéra de Paris had moved into the temporary building known as the Salle Le Peletier on the rue Le Peletier[fr]. Since then a new permanent building had been desired. Charles Rohault de Fleury, who was appointed the opera's official architect in 1846, undertook various studies in suitable sites and designs.[29] By 1847, the Prefect of the Seine, Claude-Philibert de Rambuteau, had selected a site on the east side of the Place du Palais-Royal as part of an extension of the Rue de Rivoli. However, with the Revolution of 1848, Rambuteau was dismissed, and interest in the construction of a new opera house waned. The site was later used for the Grand Hôtel du Louvre (designed in part by Charles Rohault de Fleury).[30]
With the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852 and Georges-Eugène Haussmann's appointment as Prefect of the Seine in June 1853, interest in a new opera house revived. There was an attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon III at the entrance to the Salle Le Peletier on 14 January 1858. The Salle Le Peletier's constricted street access highlighted the need for a separate, more secure entrance for the head of state. This concern and the inadequate facilities and temporary nature of the theatre gave added urgency to the building of a new state-funded opera house. By March Haussmann settled on Rohault de Fleury's proposed site off the Boulevard des Capucines, although this decision was not announced publicly until 1860. A new building would help resolve the awkward convergence of streets at this location, and the site was economical in terms of the cost of land.[31]
On 29 September 1860 an imperial decree officially designated the site for the new Opéra,[32] which would eventually occupy 12,000 square metres (1.2 ha).[33] By November 1860 Rohault de Fleury had completed the design for what he thought would be the crowning work of his career and was also working on a commission from the city to design the facades of the other buildings lining the new square to ensure they were in harmony. However that same month Achille Fould was replaced as minister of state by Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. His wife Marie Anne de Ricci Poniatowska had used her position as mistress of Napoleon III to obtain her husband's appointment.[34] Aware of competing designs and under pressure to give the commission to Viollet-le-Duc, who had the support of Empress Eugénie, Walewski escaped the need to make a decision by proposing to mount an architectural design competition to select the architect.[35]
Entrance elevation of a project for the Théâtre Impériale de l'Opéra by Rohault de Fleury, November 1860
Plan
Design competition[edit]
On 30 December 1860 the Second Empire of Emperor Napoleon III officially announced an architectural design competition for the design of the new opera house.
Applicants were given a month to submit entries. There were two phases to the competition. Charles Garnier's project was one of about 170 submitted in the first phase.[36] Each of the entrants were required to submit a motto that summarised their design. Garnier's was the quote "Bramo assai, poco spero" ("desire for much, hope for little") from the Italian poet Torquato Tasso. Garnier's project was awarded the fifth-place prize, and he became one of seven finalists selected for the second phase.[37] In addition to Garnier, among the others were his friend Leon Ginain, Alphonse-Nicolas Crépinet and Joseph-Louis Duc (who subsequently withdrew due to other commitments).[38] To the surprise of many, both Viollet-le-Duc and Charles Rohault de Fleury missed out.
Viollet-de-Duc's losing Opera Competition project of 1861
Perspective view
Plan
Long section
The second phase required the contestants to revise their original projects and was more rigorous, with a 58-page program, written by the director of the Opéra, Alphonse Royer, which the contestants received on 18 April. The new submissions were sent to the jury in the middle of May, and on 29 May 1861 Garnier's project was selected for its "rare and superior qualities in the beautiful distribution of the plans, the monumental and characteristic aspect of the facades and sections".[39]
Garnier's wife Louise later wrote that the French architect Alphonse de Gisors, who was on the jury, had commented to them that Garnier's project was "remarkable in its simplicity, clarity, logic, grandeur, and because of the exterior dispositions which distinguish the plan in three distinct parts—the public spaces, auditorium, and stage ... 'you have greatly improved your project since the first competition; whereas Ginain [the first-place winner in the first phase] has ruined his.'"[39]
Legend has it that the Emperor's wife, the Empress Eugénie, who was likely irritated that her own favoured candidate, Viollet-le-Duc, had not been selected, asked the relatively unknown Garnier: "What is this? It's not a style; it's neither Louis Quatorze, nor Louis Quinze, nor Louis Seize!" "Why Ma'am, it's Napoléon Trois" replied Garnier "and you're complaining!"[40] Andrew Ayers has written that Garnier's definition "remains undisputed, so much does the Palais Garnier seem emblematic of its time and of the Second Empire that created it. A giddy mixture of up-to-the-minute technology, rather prescriptive rationalism, exuberant eclecticism and astonishing opulence, Garnier's opera encapsulated the divergent tendencies and political and social ambitions of its era."[1] Ayers goes on to say that the judges of the competition in particular admired Garnier's design for "the clarity of his plan, which was a brilliant example of the beaux-arts design methods in which both he and they were thoroughly versed."[1]
Opéra Agence[edit]
The Opéra Agence drafting room: Garnier is second from the right, with Edmond Le Deschault on the far right, and Victor Louvet, second from the left[41]
After the initial funds to begin construction were voted on 2 July 1861, Garnier established the Opéra Agence, his office on the construction site, and hired a team of architects and draftsmen. He selected as his second-in-command, Louis-Victor Louvet, followed by Jean Jourdain and Edmond Le Deschault.[42]
Laying of the foundation[edit]
Foundation work (20 May 1862)
The site was excavated between 27 August and 31 December.[43] On 13 January 1862 the first concrete foundations were poured, starting at the front and progressing sequentially toward the back, with the laying of the substructure masonry beginning as soon as each section of concrete was cast. The opera house needed a much deeper basement in the substage area than other building types, but the level of the groundwater was unexpectedly high. Wells were sunk in February 1862 and eight steam pumps installed in March, but despite operating continuously 24 hours a day, the site would not dry up. To deal with this problem Garnier designed a double foundation to protect the superstructure from moisture. It incorporated a water course and an enormous concrete cistern (cuve) which would both relieve the pressure of the external groundwater on the basement walls and serve as a reservoir in case of fire. A contract for its construction was signed on 20 June. Soon a persistent legend arose that the opera house was built over a subterranean lake, inspiring Gaston Leroux to incorporate the idea into his novel The Phantom of the Opera. On 21 July the cornerstone was laid at the southeast angle of the building's facade. In October the pumps were removed, the brick vault of the cuve was finished by 8 November, and the substructure was essentially complete by the end of the year.[44]
Model[edit]
Villeminot model (May 1863)
The emperor expressed an interest in seeing a model of the building, and a plaster scale model (2 cm per meter) was constructed by Louis Villeminot between April 1862 and April 1863 at a cost of more than 8,000 francs. After previewing it, the emperor requested several changes to the design of the building, the most important of which was the suppression of a balustraded terrace with corner groups at the top of the facade and its replacement with a massive attic story fronted by a continuous frieze surmounted by imperial quadrigae over the end bays.[45]
With the incorporated changes, the model was transported over specially installed rails to the Palais de l'Industrie for public display at the 1863 exhibition. Théophile Gautier wrote of the model (Le Moniteur Universel, 13 May 1863) that "the general arrangement becomes intelligible to all eyes and already acquires a sort of reality that better permits one to prejudge the final effect ... it attracts the crowd's curiosity; it is, in effect, the new Opéra seen through reversed opera glasses."[46] The model is now lost, but it was photographed by J. B. Donas in 1863.[45]
The emperor's quadrigae were never added, although they can be seen in the model. Instead Charles-Alphonse Guméry's gilded bronze sculptural groups Harmony and Poetry were installed in 1869. The linear frieze seen in the model was also redesigned with alternating low- and high-relief decorative medallions bearing the gilded letters from the imperial monogram ("N" for Napoléon, "E" for Empereur). The custom-designed letters were not ready in time for the unveiling and were replaced with commercially available substitutes. After the fall of the empire in 1870, Garnier was relieved to be able to remove them from the medallions. Letters in Garnier's original design were finally installed during the restoration of the building in 2000.[47]
Change in name[edit]
The facade in November 1866
The facade on 15 August 1867
The scaffolding concealing the facade was removed on 15 August 1867 in time for the Paris Exposition of 1867. The official title of the Paris Opera was prominently displayed on the entablature of the giant Corinthian order of coupled columns fronting the main-floor loggia: "ACADEMIE IMPERIALE DE MUSIQUE".[48] When the emperor was deposed on 4 September 1870 as a result of the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, the government was replaced by the Third Republic, and almost immediately, on 17 September 1870, the Opera was renamed Théâtre National de l'Opéra, a name it kept until 1939.[49] In spite of this, when it came time to change the name on the new opera house, only the first six letters of the word IMPERIALE were replaced, giving the now famous "ACADEMIE NATIONALE DE MUSIQUE", an official title which had actually only been used during the approximately two-year period of the Second Republic which had preceded the Second Empire.[49]
1870–1871[edit]
All work on the building came to a halt during the Franco-Prussian War due to the siege of Paris (September 1870 – January 1871). Construction had so advanced that parts of the building could be used as a food warehouse and a hospital. After France's defeat Garnier became seriously ill from the deprivations of the siege and left Paris from March to June to recover on the Ligurian coast of Italy, while his assistant Louis Louvet remained behind during the turmoil of the Paris Commune which followed. Louvet wrote several letters to Garnier, which document events relating to the building. Because of the theatre's proximity to the fighting at the Place Vendôme, troops of the National Guard bivouacked there and were in charge of its defence and distributing food to soldiers and civilians. The Commune authorities planned to replace Garnier with another architect, but this unnamed man had not yet appeared when Republican troops ousted the National Guard and gained control over the building on 23 May. By the end of the month the Commune had been severely defeated. The Third Republic had become sufficiently well established by the fall, that on 30 September construction work recommenced, and by late October a small amount of funds were voted by the new legislature for further construction.[50]
1872–1873[edit]
The political leaders of the new government maintained an intense dislike of all things associated with the Second Empire, and many of them regarded the essentially apolitical Garnier as a holdover from that regime. This was especially true during the presidency of Adolphe Thiers who remained in office until May 1873, but also persisted under his successor Marshal MacMahon. Economies were demanded, and Garnier was forced to suppress the completion of sections of the building, in particular the Pavillon de l'Empereur (which later became the home of the Opera Library Museum). However, on 28–29 October an overwhelming incentive to complete the new theatre came when the Salle Le Peletier was destroyed by a fire which raged the entire night.[51] Garnier was immediately instructed to complete the building as soon as possible.
Completion[edit]
Inauguration of the Paris Opera in 1875 (Édouard Detaille, 1878)
The cost of completion of the new house during 1874 was more than 7.5 million francs, a sum that greatly exceeded the amounts spent in any of the previous thirteen years. The cash-strapped government of the Third Republic resorted to borrowing 4.9 million gold francs at an interest rate of six percent from François Blanc, the wealthy financier who managed the Monte Carlo Casino. Subsequently (from 1876 to 1879) Garnier would oversee the design and construction of the Monte Carlo Casino concert hall, the Salle Garnier, which later became the home of the Opéra de Monte Carlo.[52]
During 1874 Garnier and his construction team worked feverishly to complete the new Paris opera house, and by 17 October the orchestra was able to conduct an acoustical test of the new auditorium, followed by another on 2 December which was attended by officials, guests, and members of the press. The Paris Opera Ballet danced on the stage on 12 December, and six days later the famous chandelier was lit for the first time.[53]
The theatre was formally inaugurated on 5 January 1875 with a lavish gala performance attended by Marshal MacMahon, the Lord Mayor of London and King Alfonso XII of Spain. The program included the overtures to Auber's La muette de Portici and Rossini's William Tell, the first two acts of Halévy's 1835 opera La Juive (with Gabrielle Krauss in the title role), along with "The Consecration of the Swords" from Meyerbeer's 1836 opera Les Huguenots and the 1866 ballet La source with music by Delibes and Minkus.[54] As a soprano had fallen ill one act from Charles Gounod's Faust and one from Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet had to be omitted. During the intermission Garnier stepped out onto the landing of the grand staircase to receive the approving applause of the audience.
History of the house since opening[edit]
Auditorium. Postcard from 1909
The Grand Escalier
Grand Escalier, ascending from behind
In 1881 electric lighting was installed. In the 1950s new personnel and freight elevators were installed at the rear of stage, to facilitate the movement of employees in the administration building and the moving of stage scenery.
In 1969, the theatre was given new electrical facilities and, during 1978, part of the original Foyer de la Danse was converted into new rehearsal space for the Ballet company by the architect Jean-Loup Roubert. During 1994, restoration work began on the theatre. This consisted of modernising the stage machinery and electrical facilities, while restoring and preserving the opulent décor, as well as strengthening the structure and foundation of the building. This restoration was completed in 2007.
Stamps[edit]
The French Post Office has issued two postage stamps on the building: The first was issued in September 1998, for the centenary of the death of Charles Garnier. It was designed by Claude Andréotto grouping elements which recall the artistic activities of the Opera Garnier: the profile of a dancer, a violin and a red curtain. The second, drawn and engraved by Martin Mörck, is issued in June 2006 and represents, in intaglio, the main facade.
Influence abroad[edit]
The building inspired many other buildings over the following thirty years.
Several buildings in Poland were based on the design of the Palais Garnier. these include the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków, built during 1893 and also the Warsaw Philharmony edifice in Warsaw, built between 1900 and 1901.
In Ukraine, the influence of the Palais Garnier can be seen at the National Opera House of Ukraine in Kiev, built in 1901, Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Lviv, built between 1897 and 1900.
The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is modelled after the Palais Garnier, most notably the facade and Great Hall.[55]
The Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (1909) was also modelled after Palais Garnier, particularly and Great Hall and stairs.
The Amazon Theatre in Manaus (Brazil) built from 1884 to 1896. The overview is very similar, though the decoration is simpler.
The Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam is considered to be a typical French colonial architectural monument in Vietnam, and it is also a small-scale replica of the Palais Garnier. The Saigon Opera House is a smaller counterpart.
The Legends Hotel Chennai in India is also a small scale replica of Palais Garnier, especially the Facade and statues.
The former Warsaw Philharmonic Hall
Hanoi Opera House
National Opera House of Ukraine
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress
The Amazonas theatre in Manaus, Brazil
Municipal Theater of São Paulo
Artwork[edit]
Apollo, Poetry and Music roof sculpture by Aimé Millet
Apollo, Poetry and Music; Apollo's lyre detail
Poetry roof sculpture by Charles Gumery
Lyrical Drama façade sculpture by Jean-Joseph Perraud
The Dance by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Bronze busts of Beethoven and Mozart on the front façade
Palais Garnier east side with L'Opéra Restaurant
See also[edit]
Architecture portal
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Napoleon III style
Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris
Opéra National de Paris
Paris Opera Ballet
The works of Paul Dubois- French sculptor
Salle Le Peletier
The Phantom of the Opera
Listing of the works of Alexandre Falguière
List of works by Henri Chapu
References[edit]
Notes
^ Jump up to: a b c Ayers 2004, pp. 172–174.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 146. Haussmann reported on 14 August 1871 that the site had been cleared and surveyed. A temporary building for the Opéra Agence was erected in August, and excavation was begun on the 27th.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 197. According to this source, more work was done after this date, and some parts of the building were never completed. The figure does not include the costs of acquiring and clearing the land, which was the responsibility of Haussmann's Service d'Architecture and probably exceeded 15 million francs (Mead 1991, pp. 140, 146).
Jump up ^ Nuitter 1875, p. 250. Heights are measured from the ground level of the Place de l'Opéra. The sculpture at the apex of the stage flytower roof is not included, but would add an additional 7.50 metres.
Jump up ^ Nuitter 1875, pp. 249–250. The length is measured from the south side of the principal facade to the north side of the avant-corps of the administration; the widths, between the exteriors of the two lateral galleries, and the east and west pavilions; basement depth, from the ground level of the Place de l'Opéra to the bottom of the cistern under the stage house.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 156.
Jump up ^ Beauvert 1996, pp. 102–109 (capacity, theatre names); Hanser 2006, pp. 172 (dates of construction).
Jump up ^ Ayers 2004, p. 188.
^ Jump up to: a b Hanser 2006, pp. 172–179.
Jump up ^ Simeone 2000, p. 177.
Jump up ^ Watkin 1996, pp. 391–392.
Jump up ^ Quoted and translated in Woolf 1988, pp. 220, 233. From Le Corbusier, Almanach d'Architecture Moderne, Collection de 'L'Esprit Nouveau, Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1938–9 (Paris, 1955), p. 120 ("art de mensonge", "événement Garnier est un décor d'enterrement").
Jump up ^ "Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra" (in French) at the BnF website. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Palais Garnier" Archived 18 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. at the Paris Opera website. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
Jump up ^ Sarmant, Thierry, Histoire de Paris: Politique, Urbanisme, civilization, (2012), pg. 191
Jump up ^ Ducher, Robert, Caractéristique des Styles (1988), page 190
Jump up ^ Texier, Simon, Paris- Panorama de l'archirecture (2012) page 95
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 4–5; Sveiven, Megan. "AD Classics: Paris Opera / Charles Garnier". ArchDaily. Retrieved 19 March 2015. .
Jump up ^ Texier, Simon, Paris- Panorama de l'archirecture (2012) page 95
Jump up ^ Texier, Simon, Paris- Panorama de l'archirecture (2012) page 95
Jump up ^ Jouffroy's group is titled l'Harmonie in Nuitter 1878, p. 11, and in Garnier 1875–81, vol. 1, p. 424, vol. 2, p. 273, but is identified as La Poésie in the "Table des planches" of the 1875 atlas folio Statues décoratives (View at Wikimedia Commons), and according to Fontaine 2000, p. 82, is also sometimes referred to as Lyric Poetry.
^ Jump up to: a b Fontaine 2000
Jump up ^ Kirkland 2013, pp. 283—284.
Jump up ^ Hanser 2006, p. 177.
^ Jump up to: a b c Fontaine 2004, p. 94–95.
Jump up ^ Garnier 1871, p. 205; quoted and translated in Fontaine 2004, p. 94.
Jump up ^ Paris Opera Restaurant Press Release
Jump up ^ "Guillaume Tison-Malthé, aux fourneaux de L'Opéra Restaurant". cuisine.journaldesfemmes.com. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 53.
Jump up ^ Kirkland 2014, pp. 188–189.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 53–56.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 58; Kirkland. Page 190.
Jump up ^ Beauvert 1996, p. 102.
Jump up ^ Kirkland 2013, pp. 185–186.
Jump up ^ Kirkland 2013, p. 191.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 60 ("170 projects"); Kirkland 2013, p. 192 ("171 designs").
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 60–62. Only five projects were awarded prizes, but two were the result of collaborations.
Jump up ^ Kirkland 2013, p. 192.
^ Jump up to: a b Quoted and translated in Mead 1991, pp. 76, 290.
Jump up ^ Translated and quoted by Ayers 2004, pp. 172–174. The architectural styles mentioned by the empress were those which prevailed during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. For more information, see the sections on Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassicism in French architecture.
Jump up ^ Photo by Louis-Emile Durandelle (fr). Mead 1991, p. 138, reproduces a different print (fig. 187) of the same photograph (from the Bibliothèque nationale, see a copy at Commons) and identifies the three men. This particular print is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose annotator dates it to ca. 1870. The elevation of the opera house shown in the background is quite similar to a design dated to the spring of 1862 by Mead 1991, p. 90 (see copy at Commons).
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 137.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 146–147.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 147; Hanser 2006, p. 174; Ayers 2004, p. 174.
^ Jump up to: a b Mead 1991, pp. 149–151.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 303.
Jump up ^ Fontaine 2000, pp. 91–92.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, p. 185.
^ Jump up to: a b Levin, Alicia. "A documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830–1900" in Fauser (2009), p. 382.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 142–143, 168–170.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 143–145. 170–172.
Jump up ^ Mead 1991, pp. 145–146; Folli & Merello 2004, p. 116.
Jump up ^ Simeone 2000, pp. 177–180.
Jump up ^ Huebner 2003, p. 303.
Jump up ^ Scott & Lee 1993, pp. 142–145.
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External links[edit]
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Unused architectural drawings for the Opéra de Paris by Charles Rohault de Fleury
360° Panoramas of the Paris Opera by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University
Selected images and video of the Palais Garnier by Art Days
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value: Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia

value: About the project, what you can do, where to find things

value: A list of recent changes in the wiki [ctrl-alt-r]

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value: List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [ctrl-alt-j]

value: Recent changes in pages linked from this page [ctrl-alt-k]

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value: A list of all special pages [ctrl-alt-q]

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value: Link to connected data repository item [ctrl-alt-g]

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value: قصر غارنييه – Arabic

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interlanguage-link interwiki-ast
display: none;

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interlanguage-link interwiki-az
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value: পালে গার্নিয়ে – Bangla

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interlanguage-link interwiki-bn
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value: Париж милли операһы – Bashkir

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interlanguage-link interwiki-ba
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value: Пале Гарние – Bulgarian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-bg
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value: སྒར་ཉེའི་ཟློས་གར་ཁང་། – Tibetan

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interlanguage-link interwiki-bo
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interlanguage-link interwiki-ca
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value: Гарнье Опери – Chuvash

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interlanguage-link interwiki-cv
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interlanguage-link interwiki-cs
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interlanguage-link interwiki-da
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interlanguage-link interwiki-et
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value: Οπερά Γκαρνιέ – Greek

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interlanguage-link interwiki-el
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interlanguage-link interwiki-eo
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interlanguage-link interwiki-eu
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value: کاخ گارنیه – Persian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-fa
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interlanguage-link interwiki-gl
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value: 오페라 가르니에 – Korean

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interlanguage-link interwiki-ko
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value: Գրանդ օպերա – Armenian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-hy
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interlanguage-link interwiki-hr
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interlanguage-link interwiki-io
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interlanguage-link interwiki-it
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value: האופרה גרנייה – Hebrew

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interlanguage-link interwiki-he
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value: ოპერა გარნიე – Georgian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-ka
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value: Гарнье Опера үйі – Kazakh

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interlanguage-link interwiki-kk
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interlanguage-link interwiki-la
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interlanguage-link interwiki-lb
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value: Опера Гарние – Macedonian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-nn
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interlanguage-link interwiki-pms
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value: Опера Гарнье – Russian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-sco
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interlanguage-link interwiki-sk
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value: Опера Гарније – Serbian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-sh
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interlanguage-link interwiki-sv
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value: โรงอุปรากรปาแลการ์นีเย – Thai

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interlanguage-link interwiki-th
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interlanguage-link interwiki-tr
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value: Опера Гарньє – Ukrainian

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interlanguage-link interwiki-vi
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