Charles Garnier

Architect of the Monte-Carlo auditorium inaugurated on 25 January 1879 — Memoria archives public acts linked to the building, not a biography.

Link with MonacoDesign of the Garnier auditorium (Opéra de Monte-Carlo)

Period1825–1898 (life dates — Opéra de Paris institution)

DistrictMonaco

Checked on7 October 2026

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Charles Garnier is cited in Memoria because the hall that bears his name in Monte-Carlo is a documented built fact. The guide does not retrace schooling or a Paris career: only public milestones tied to the Principality appear here.

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2026

AwardJournal de Monaco n° 8.806 — 3 juillet 2026· 24 June 2026

150th anniversary of the institution — scientific committee

A sovereign ordinance of 24 June 2026 creates the scientific committee for the 150th anniversary of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo: the act commemorates the building and the institution, implicitly recalling the genesis of the Garnier hall without being a biography of the architect.

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1879

InaugurationOpéra de Monte-Carlo — institution· 25 January 1879

Inauguration of the Monte-Carlo auditorium

The performance hall designed by Charles Garnier is inaugurated on 25 January 1879 in Monte-Carlo. Memoria retains the date via the institution's documentation; no permalink to a separate nineteenth-century official act is indexed on the Journal site.

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Sources & press coverage

Sources cited in Charles Garnier's timeline

Opéra de Monte-CarloHistoire de la salle Garnier

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