Experience some of the world's greatest lyrical music in one of the most lyrical buildings ever constructed - Charles Garnier's Monte Carlo Opera.
Sarah Bernhard inaugurated the new Salle Garnier in 1879. Between 1893 and 1951, Raoul Gunsbourg directed the Opera and built up a prestigious reputation for Monaco's Opera House, which hosted great voices such as Patti, Tamagno, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapine (who played the part of Don Quixote in 1910), Garden, Schipa, Dalla Rizza, Gigli, Lubin, Muzio, Thill, and Pons.
Great works have been premiered here, too - Franck's "Hulda" (1894) and "Ghisele" (1896), Bizet's "Don Procopio" (1906), Massenet's "Cleopatre" (1914) and "Amadis" (1922). More recently, Rendine's "Un Segreto d'importanza" (1992) and Lowell Liebermann's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1996) were written for the Opera.
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