Theatres & opera houses in France

The Palais Garnier, a work of 19th-century theatre architecture whose public spaces can be explored freely.

A national theatre and common house of European theatre, which invites foreign artists to create on its two stages, here and at the Ateliers Berthier; in the 800-seat hall, André Masson's 1965 ceiling is built around Apollo as the sun and figures of tragedy and comedy.

On the guided visit, Bourdelle's bas-reliefs on the façade and his frescoes in the atrium, Lalique's chandeliers, Lebasque's paintings in the Salon des Dames, a cutaway model of the theatre on the second balcony, and the hall with Maurice Denis's painted ceiling, seen from the dress circle.