Travellers can soon spend a night at Palais Garnier, home of The Phantom of the Opera

Paris’s renowned Palais Garnier Opera home, household of The Phantom of the Opera, will be readily available to e book for right away stays for the initially time up coming thirty day period.

The historic French opera property was the inspiration for one particular of the world’s longest-jogging and most-liked musicals, The Phantom of the Opera.

To rejoice the show’s 37th anniversary, when it will be carried out in 15 nations around the world, together with a ultimate operate on New York’s Broadway, Airbnb is offering supporters the likelihood to commit the evening at the put wherever the tale began.

Next in the footsteps of Le Fantome, two visitors will mattress down for the evening inside of the Palais Garnier Opera.

Their boudoir will be the Box of Honour — just one of the most special private viewing places in the theatre that is commonly reserved for going to dignitaries. It will be remodeled into a majestic bedroom with a look at of the well-known phase, gilded golden home furnishings and plush crimson bedding and textiles.

Veronique Leroux, the wonderful-granddaughter of French novelist Gaston Leroux, who wrote the world-well known tale of the phantom, is hosting.

“My good-grandfather’s traditional story has inspired so several persons as a result of the decades,” Leroux explained.

“This is the best time to honour him and welcome ‘phans’ to the popular environment of his a great deal-cherished novel for a as soon as-in-a-lifetime remain.”

Friends will also get to wander the halls of the building which dates back to 1875, with accessibility to a lot of spots commonly off-boundaries to the community.

This will contain a tour of the non-public dance studios beneath the theatre’s eaves, a tour of the opera’s private archives and a go to to the subterranean “lake” down below the opera home which was the inspiration for the Phantom’s lair.

There will also be a ballet lesson headed up by one particular of the dancers from the Ballet Opera de Paris, moreover an exclusive efficiency by the artists of the Paris Opera Academy. A dinner will be served in the Foyer de la Danse, the historic dancing rehearsal place powering the key phase of the theatre that is normally only accessible for dancers warming up before a show.

Scheduling for the 1-night remain will open on Airbnb’s web page at 6pm (Paris time) on March 1, with reservations recognized on July 16 only. The continue to be will price €37 ($39.5), excluding taxes, which is the very same selection bestowed on the Box of Honour in the theatre.

Airbnb claims the night time at Palais Garnier is portion of its attempts to assist heritage tourism in Europe.

The lodging reserving platform is also committing to an ongoing undertaking to restore the Palais Garnier bins to their 19th-century splendour and supporting fund the progress of the opera’s streaming system, so that audiences all-around the entire world have the opportunity to expertise its audiovisual content material.

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Up-to-date: February 13, 2023, 11:51 AM