
If you have booked an Opera performance, check the venue on your tickets. Paid car parking is available at Q-Park Edouard VII – Rue Bruno Coquatrix 75009 Paris. Palais Garnier is around 100 meters (330 feet) from the station.īus routes 20, 21, 27, 29, 32, 45, 52, 66, 68, and 95 can also get you dropped near the attraction. If you are taking the RER, you must board Line A and get down at Auber station. Lines 3, 7, and 8 can get you to the Opéra station, the closest subway station to Palais Garnier. The entrance of the historic Opera house is at the corner of Scribe and Auber streets. The Opéra Garnier is in the busy 9th arrondissement in Paris. If you are intrigued by the Phantom of the Opera, check out the underground tour of Palais Garnier. Visitors on a budget holiday opt for the self-guided tour, which is the cheapest way to experience the architectural marvel. More information is available on the operahouse's official website.We recommend a guided tour by a local expert, for the best experience at Opera Garnier. It conjures up memories of our forgotten childhood as though once, long ago, we ourselves were that very brother and sister lost in the forest, trapped in the grasp of the witch with her gingerbread house. The result is music that astounds, as deep as the lakes of Germanic legends but at the same time strangely familiar. However, his fairy-tale opera (Märchenoper) also drew on children’s songs and the sort of popular melodies whose origins tend to become lost in the mists of time. Humperdinck had retained a Wagnerian taste for continuous melody and leitmotiv. The opera premiered at Christmas under the enthusiastic baton of Richard Strauss.

His sister wrote the libretto, inspired by the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale. Ten years later, in Weimar, Humperdinck completed his masterpiece, Hänsel und Gretel.

He became a wanderer, travelling throughout Europe, eventually becoming a renowned teacher. In 1883, the Master died, leaving his disciple “incomplete”. These two years of intense artistic collaboration on Parsifal indelibly marked the young composer’s life and style. In 1881, the twenty-seven-year-old Engelbert Humperdinck became Richard Wagner’s assistant in Bayreuth.
