An Opera for an Empire

January. 23,2021

Rating：

7.5

Genre：

History Documentary

Keywords：

Paris, France Construction Site

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The amazing and epic story of how the Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was built from 1852 to 1870, thanks to the decisive impulse of the French Emperor Napoleon III; a story that is also that of the birth of a golden age for orchestral music, opera and ballet; of the rise of the urban bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.

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Reviews

Limerculer

2021/01/23

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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Casey Duggan

2021/01/24

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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Geraldine

2021/01/25

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Fulke

2021/01/26

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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