Immersive Phantom-themed escape room in the Palais Garnier. This is not a drill.
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The Palais Garnier, the Mecca of classical dance and opera, will open to a new audience by hosting from June 9 an “escape game”, a game of escape in the footsteps of the Phantom of the Opera, announced Thursday by the Paris Opera.
Presented as “an immersive experience”, this detective game titled “Inside the Opera”, which opens Thursday, will feature up to 150 participants at a time. They will have to decipher puzzles for 90 minutes within the Palais Garnier. Until now, apart from performances, access was reserved for spectators and visitors to this iconic landmark.
Speaking to “history buffs, dance and music lovers, enigmas lovers and new experiences lovers,” this “escape game” will consist of solving “the curse of the Phantom of the Opera” with the participation of different actors in period costume, according to a joint statement of the Paris Opera and Team Break, one of the leaders of these games of escape, object of a real craze.
A few weeks ago, the Parc des Princes launched its own version of this game to attract audiences other than the only football fans.
At the Paris Opera, which will celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2019, this game will take place on days without artistic shows, ballets, or operas. The participants will conduct the investigation by circulating freely in the different emblematic spaces of the places: the Grand Staircase, the Avant Foyer and the Grand Foyer but also the legendary box of the Phantom of the Opera, in the great hall of the Palais Garnier at the famous ceiling painted by Chagall. To intensify immersion and play, participants will be masked.
Based on the legend of the Phantom of the Opera, a fantastic novel by Gaston Leroux published in 1910, the game starts during the rehearsals of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” on the eve of the premiere, rehearsals disturbed by “strange events” .
“This new immersive experience in the Palais Garnier will allow visitors to discover the secrets of Charles Garnier’s architectural masterpiece, inaugurated in 1875,” says the Opéra national de Paris, recalling that 670,000 people visit Garnier every year for shows.
Available only on the internet, tickets are sold 28 euros for adults and 22 euros for children under 14 (free for children under 4 years).
Après le Parc des Princes, l’Opéra de Paris se lance dans l’«escape game»
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