If you’re planning a trip to Paris, there’s one stop that deserves a top spot on your itinerary: the iconic Palais Garnier. This extravagant opera house, inaugurated on January 5, 1875 ...

Leroux claimed the phantom was indeed real, successfully incorporating real life opera occurrences (such as the chandelier falling and killing a bystander) into his fiction. The Garnier's lack of ...