Editing Monte Carlo (section)

===Salle Garnier===
{{Main|Opéra de Monte-Carlo}}
[[File:Casino de Montecarlo, Mónaco, 2016-06-23, DD 04.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Salle Garnier, home of the [[Opéra de Monte-Carlo]]]]
The [[Opéra de Monte-Carlo]] or Salle Garnier was built to designs of the architect [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]], who also designed the Paris opera house now known as the [[Palais Garnier]]. Although much smaller, the Salle Garnier is very similar in style with decorations in red and gold, and frescoes and sculptures all around the auditorium. It was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by [[Sarah Bernhardt]] dressed as a nymph. The first opera performed there was [[Robert Planquette]]'s ''[[Le Chevalier Gaston]]'' on 8 February 1879, and that was followed by three more in the first season.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/01/30/96632489.pdf |title=Obituary:Arturo Vigna |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 30, 1927 |access-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804051935/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/01/30/96632489.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

Other famous twentieth-century singers to appear at Monte Carlo included [[Titta Ruffo]], [[Geraldine Farrar]], [[Mary Garden]], [[Tito Schipa]], [[Beniamino Gigli]], [[Claudia Muzio]], [[Georges Thill]], and [[Lily Pons]].