Paris. The Paris National Opera will carry out renovation works that will force it to close its two theaters alternately for a period of two years each, the institution told AFP on Thursday.
The Palais Garnier, an almost 150-year-old building registered as a “historical monument” in 1923, will close from “mid-2027 to mid-2029” and the Opera Bastille, inaugurated in 1989, from “mid-2030” by at least two years as well, he specified.
The institution points out that the amount of “provisional financing of the works” was “estimated by the Court of Auditors at at least 200 million euros [unos 217 millones de dólares] from now to 2030” in a report published last week.
The court found the buildings to be “aging” and “long underfunded.”
The amount of funding is “being updated, according to ongoing diagnoses,” the National Opera added.
The artistic programming of the Palais Garnier “will be interrupted for two years”, according to a “provisional schedule of works” adopted in July, he added.
According to the institution, during the period of closure of the Palais Garnier from mid-2027 to mid-2029, “the programming of the Opera Bastille will host an equal proportion of performances of operas and ballets. Shows will also be scheduled in other associated halls , in Paris” and elsewhere in France.
During the works at the Opera Bastille “these same principles will be applied,” he noted.
The Garnier building will, however, continue to be “accessible to visitors”, with “foreseeable restrictions for the performance hall”, he specified.
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