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Visits are accessible every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last entry 45 minutes before closing). The health pass is mandatory to access the Palais Garnier for all visitors over 12 years and 2 months old.
To anticipate your venue, online reservation is strongly recommended.

Individuals
Groups

SELF-GUIDED TOUR

The Paris Opera offers you the possibility to discover the treasures of the Palais Garnier's public areas, a master piece of the 19th century theater art architecture. This ticket also gives you access to the current exhibitions (when available).

Please note that the access to the auditorium may be forbidden due to technical and/or artistic reasons.

Full rate: €14 (€12 outside exhibition periods)
Reduced rate: €10 (€8 outside exhibition periods)
Free admisssions (children under 12, unemployed, ...)

Prices, opening hours and conditions of booking

Available with a multimedia guide service

GUIDED TOURS

Discover our classic overall tours of the theatre including a presentation of its history, architecture and its different activities.
You can also book a themed guided tour, for a unique and unusual visit after opening hours.

Individual self-guided visits – information

Visits take place every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (except on days with afternoon performances, exceptionnal closure and summer period. Last entrance 45 minutes before closure.
In order to guarantee the health of visitors and staff of the Opéra de Paris, we remind you that it is mandatory for all people from 11 years old to wear a mask throughout the visit.The cloakrooms are closed during visiting hours. It is not possible to enter with a scooter or any other voluminous luggage.

Annual closure: January 1st, May 1st and December 25th.

Exceptional closures

Closed in the morning
Closed in the afternoon
Exceptional closure
Restricted access

Click on a date to see detailed schedules

INFORMATION

By phone: 08 92 89 90 90 (0,35€/min) and from outside France: +33 1 71 25 24 23, from Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm.

BOOKING CONDITIONS

Book your ticket

Online by clicking on the button "BOOK" for the visit of your choice. You will be redirected to a page to create your Paris Opera account (or login if you are already registered).
On the Paris Opera application
By phone on 08 92 89 90 90 (+33 1 71 25 24 23 if calling from abroad)
At the Palais Garnier's desks : open every day from 10 am to 4:15pm.
At automatic terminals located in the Palais Garnier's hall (ticketing area). Payment by credit only.

PRICES

Full rate: adult over 26 years old.

Reduced rate*:

Young people aged 12-25;
Holders of a valid Opera subscriber card or Pass' Académie card;
Holders of a visit ticket for the Bastille Opera;
Holders of a maximum 8-days old ticket for the Musée d'Orsay or Musée Gustave Moreau;

Free admission*:

Children under the age of 12;
The disabled and their helpers (limited to one helper per disabled person, additional helpers at full price);
The unemployed, recipients of social assistance / RSA / other minimum social benefits (on presentation of a document dated within the last 3 months);
Holders of the Pass' Jeunes Opéra;
Holders of the AROP Particulier card ;
Holders of the Carte Culture (valid for two persons);
Holders of the French professional tour guide card;
Holders of the Bibliothèque nationale de France's reader's card (admission to the reading room of the Opera's Library-museum);
Architecture students and École du Louvre students.

^{*only on presentation of a valid identification/written proof.}

ACCESSIBILITY

The temporary exhibitions' area is not accessible for people with reduced mobility.

Our multimedia guide services

Every day from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. in August and from 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. from September.

Explore the architecture, history, legends and secrets of Charles Garnier's masterpiece.

MULTIMEDIA TOUR

For adults

A magically enlightening 90-minute multimedia voyage, enriched with archival images and interviews with specialists of the Opera and its history.
During the tour, thanks to augmented reality, the most emblematic and inaccessible areas of the building, such as the Foyer de la Danse and the Costume Depository, also become accessible.
Explore the auditorium, inspect Marc Chagall's ceiling, the paintings in the Grand Foyer and the façade of the Palais Garnier.

Make your own way around the Palais Garnier or follow a suggested route.

An interactive plan to guide you.

Device: iPad mini
Price: €6.50
Length of visit: 90 mins
Languages available: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Accessibility: French sign language, French audio-descriptive tour

For children (6 years and above):

Let the Phantom of the Opera take you on a tour of Charles Garnier's architectural masterpiece. The legends of the Palais Garnier will hold no secrets for you or your children thanks to this 1 hour-interactive tour (games at every stage of the tour plus a quiz at the end).

Device: iPod
Price: €5
Length of visit: 1 hr
Languages available: French, English, Spanish

Virtual tour

In partnership with the Google Cultural iIstitute, discover the theatre and its masterpieces as if you were actually there.

DISCOVER

Chidren games experience

A funny document for the children to explore the Palais Garnier and discover its history, while playing a game.

DOWNLOAD

Devialet

At the heart of the Palais Garnier, the Devialet acoustic discovery room showcases wireless speakers, among which the "Gold Phantom Opéra de Paris".

Informations: devialet.com , +33 9 63 53 20 79

WEBSITE

Palais Garnier, le grand escalier © Jean-Pierre Delagarde / OnP

BASSIN DE LA PITHYE, GRAND ESCALIER

Beyond the Rotonde des Abonnés, the Bassin de la Pythia leads to the Grand Escalier with its magnificent thirty-meter-high vault. Built of marble of various colours, it is home to the double staircase leading to the foyers and the various floors of the theatre. At the bottom of the stairs, a true theatre within the theatre, two female allegories holding torches greet spectators.

Palais Garnier, la salle. © Jean-Pierre Delagarde / OnP

the auditorium

In the tradition of Italian theatre, the horseshoe-shaped "French" auditorium, so-called for the way the seats are arranged according to their category, was designed for the audience to see and to be seen. Its metallic structure, hidden by marble, stucco, velvet and gilding, supports the weight of the 8-ton bronze and crystal chandelier with its 340 lights. The house curtain was created by theatrical painters Auguste Rube (1817-1899) and Philippe Chaperon (1823-1906), following Charles Garnier's instructions. The curtain was replaced by an identical one in both 1951 and 1996. The ceiling painted by Marc Chagall and commissioned by the Minister of Culture André Malraux was inaugurated on September 23, 1964.

SALON DU GLACIER, FOYER

At the end of a long gallery is the Rotunde du Glacier, a fresh and bright rotunda with a ceiling painted by Clairin (1843-1919) and featuring dancing bacchantes and fauna, along with tapestries illustrating different refreshments as well as fishing and hunting. Completed after the opening of the Palais Garnier, this salon evokes the aesthetic of the Belle Époque.

The vault of the Avant-Foyer is covered with mosaics of shimmering colours on a gold background. The view of the Grand Staircase is spectacular. The play of light between mirrors and windows in the Grand Foyer further accentuates the latter's vast dimensions. The ceiling painted by Paul Baudry (1828-1886) features themes from the history of music.

The lyre is the main element: it reigns over all the decorative vocabulary, be it on capitals, heating grids or doorknobs. A copy of Charles Garnier's bust by the sculptor Carpeaux (1827-1875) is located in the centre of the foyer, near a window looking down the Avenue de l'Opera towards the Louvre. The view can be enjoyed even more from the loggia. The Salons du Soleil et de la Lune offer a symbolic and poetic transition to the other areas.

library-museum of the opera

The collections of the Library-Museum of the Opera (National Library of France) conserve three centuries of the theatre's history. The museum gallery houses a permanent exhibition of paintings, drawings, photographs and set models. After the fall of the Empire, the premises were never completed: in the staircase leading to the temporary exhibition hall, remain the massive stone blocks dating from 1870. Access to the reading room, located in the Rotunde de l'Empereur, is restricted to researchers.

GALERIE DE L'ORCHESTRE, GRAND VESTIBULE

The Galerie de l'Orchestre offers a last glance of the Palais Garnier and an audiovisual exhibition recounting its history. The Grand Vestibule, watched over by the statues of the four composers Rameau, Lully, Gluck and Handel, leads to the exit.

The theatre history

Learn more about the Paris Opera's history and architecture in our section "350 years".

Musée d'Orsay

This offer is valid for:

Musée d'Orsay ticket-holders (offer valid within 8 days after the date the Musée d'Orsay ticket is issued);
Holders of the Musée d'Orsay Carte Blanche (offer valid throughout the period of the card's validity).
Reduced-rate admission for a Musée d'Orsay entry ticket is also available to holders of a Palais Garnier tour ticket, up to 8 days after the issue date of this ticket.

Musée Gustave Moreau

Offer available to holders of an entry ticket to this museum up to 8 days after the issue date of this ticket.

For 8 days after the purchase of a Palais Garnier tour ticket, reduced rates available for an admission to the Musée Gustave Moreau.

Visit also the Bastille Opera

The Paris Opera offers you the possibility to discover the backstage world of this modern theatre, whose dimensions are impressive, created in 1989 by Carlos Ott.

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