Charles Garnier, who will give his name to the Parisian opera, imagines then a building mixing different styles and inspirations in order to design a temple dedicated to arts looking like a theatre set, at the same time sumptuous and modernist in its conception.
The creator of the building that would become Paris opera house would be chosen after an anonymous contest whose, unexpectedly, is won by the young Charles Garnier (unknown and who hasn’t built anything yet) right under the noses of the renowned builders of the second Empire. In 1860, Napoleon the third ordered the construction of an imperial Academy of music and dance in the heart of Paris.
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