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By the end of the nineteenth century, Charles Garnier was hired to build Monaco's Opera House. The famous architect had gained recognition from his work for the Paris Opera House.
Sarah Bernhard inaugurated the new Salle Garnier in 1879. Between 1893 and 1951, Raoul Gunsbourg directed the Opera and built fame and prestige for Monaco's Opera House. Among the best internationally, Monaco's Opera hosted great voices such as Patti, Tamagno, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapine, Garden, Schipa, Dalla Rizza, Gigli, Lubin, Muzio, Thill, and Pons.
The Opera is also the home of creative work, including, Franck's "Hulda" (1894) and "Ghisele" (1896), Bizet's "Don Procopio" (1906), Massenet's "Cleopatre" (1914) and "Amadis" (1922), or more recently Rendine's "Un Segreto d'importanza" (1992) and Lowell Liebermann's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1996). Chaliapan created the title role in Massenet's Don Quixote in Monaco in 1910. |
