Editing Palais Garnier (section)

====Auditorium====
The auditorium has a traditional Italian horseshoe shape and can seat 1,979. The stage is the largest in Europe and can accommodate as many as 450 artists. The canvas house curtain was painted to represent a draped curtain, complete with tassels and braid.

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File:Palais Garnier auditorium and stage.jpg|Auditorium
File:Palais Garnier transverse section at the auditorium and pavilions - Beauvert 1996 p106.jpg|Transverse section at the auditorium and pavilions
File:Paris. Palais Garnier. Interior. Postcard from 1909.jpg|Auditorium. Postcard from 1909
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The ceiling area which surrounds the chandelier was originally painted by [[Jules-Eugène Lenepveu]].
In 1964 [[Marc Chagall#Ceiling of the Paris Opera (1963)|a new ceiling]] painted by [[Marc Chagall]] was installed on a removable frame over the original. It depicts scenes from operas by 14 composers – [[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]], Mozart, [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]], [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]], [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]], [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]], [[Adolphe Adam|Adam]], [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]], [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], and [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]]. Although praised by some, others feel Chagall's work creates "a false note in Garnier's carefully orchestrated interior".<ref>Hanser 2006, p. 177.</ref>