The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-10
TIE GRAND oPER.i IN PARIs.
Its Construction, Interior Arrangement
and Cost.

The Paris correspondent Of the London Tclc-
graph writes:
Yesterday paid visit the interior OF the new
Grand opera, Paris us yet OF course an archtectu-
raj chaos, and hardly revealing It's future glorcs
TO eNoierlc eyes. Most OF your readers have seen
tue grand mass Of Haussmannc conception.
used 10 dlsliSc II, but 1t has grown on Paris and
If you walk down the Rue Louis lie Grand YOU will
see facade, and behind 1t n theatre, never yet
e4ualled in Europe. remember being conducted
with solemn awe to the Scala, and with hushed
reverence TO San Carlo. had even then seen
theatres and was disappointed MS every one who
goes TO see anything after twenty-five Will
probably be; still, there they were. hut, looking
to the actual dimensions OF those two theatres. It
Grand opera Of Paris Whit that edcc ii s has cost cost
Writer Of this letter. DO they know %af M e Inc
Crimcan war cos,r the Indian mutiny or the
Aoysslnlan expeditions No. Well, then, We have
"Sleace IA mort!'
IT, TO build bull, l over qulcksanI is not good plan,
tower in the TfoR Tower; pHe Who sares for
that?-wlch also in early life met with very
shiiiy Fortunes do not say that l admire the
DO not like them nj all; and, indeed, fancy that
bronze VIII hardly express what they will be in =
In the sun as he drinks his coffee and water SAYS
no NOV rIeha IRON IRON tue country who paEs eh9!
are TO walk into their places by the grandcst ell
trance, that which faces the Site whereon stood
about half turn. il You you are 'tS' to judge ahs
nS%nt qr"n Nv, Wha enyomc yo% go to hear ,. and see
your Seat you mus, anticipate something mag
nifcen'. Crossing the Grand Place dc rOpera,
you, chean, walking. s,all-gOing person. mount
lcrics in which you need not he suirocated be-
tween the acts, either 10 pit upper boxes or gal.
lSry. II was objected that the entrances were low
the height, man OF six feet two, with his cane,
could scarcely touch the top. Round the build
to the north, the carriage entrance, under cover
OF Which comes the general public, and that CON-
poste body viii drive up 70 It's stalls and boxes
male mind Of burlington. So far as we could
Judge, the rest OF the staIrcases will be perfect.
trance Of the Emperor and the Empress. and is
truly imperial. From io5nid we see it-a grand
gallery, which In hot weather will allow aM the
upper boxes TO lounge out Of their places smoke
In the open air. watch those who come and go,
and M! look down on that vista which will lead TO
cd by somewha, heavy gateway, which, from
above, gives rather lit r'r"ct thai It's occupants
had better M get out and walk; but once that they
deed I'm n broad way which leais to a suit OF
rooms nrnnc nneauallSi should say in any theatre
world Then we must turn to the joyer-
l pledge You my word that 1t IS as big as
over OF Paris theatre was an ins!tn,lohs%p M sa
haps the 6edu1 jours Will return with More
space. We pass through miles Of passages OF
have ever seen In easements, and on which
am sure the enemy. armed with the largest musI-
en hS viii produce any effect
By the way, oncialism here is carried TO the very
extreme OF the. tape. a friend OF nlnc made a
grand groups outside ire not solid, but in dc.
tached blocks; that hence Harmony has raw on
wSeh s rSe M IS enreg orSaen nS o
make notes here" was announced. Now In
besleged fortress one can understand this; in ON
tion. am quite sure that none Of our party
four poor pilgrims from distant lands,
an@ Rn@ g9nes sne least oes the Gsa had
the means, which, indeed, Judging individually,
doubt, Of building an opposition Grand Opera In
our tour OF Inspection. we went next to see the
dressing rooms Of the ladies' and gentlemen, and
were charmed, Then we went to see the theatre
was the cry. Yet p am told It is al little larger,
even; nay, 1t Is event bigger than the now existing
containing three hundred persons more-.and
they win all be .comfortable' was said by our
taSs and they are serapy no all som
Portable" Standing, with your face TO the stage
the impression would be, 1 think, that you had
many stairs, gone through long lines OF passages,
merely to see a very handsome but small theatre.
ei he as @
width and depth OF the actual stage istelf,
and the ynst space which Is not seen from the
promise Of the outside What S wonderful fns spec e
tacles Will our sons see on that vast scene; and
Mss1 the wGs @ and
the stagc, and that is "vast.d You must under
small, while ii is very large; and suppose that,
as there is limit to the human voice divine, so
there must be limit to the size OF theatre. Adj
Joining the stage, and In the old Rue Neuve des
Mathurius, Is the library or the theatre-very
large, as II needs be, TO contain oil the manu-
9ns sang the as G
intended to last as long as the monuments of
Rome, and win give very distant New Zealander
Fire, too, would be, shonla say, an mpossi-
biity, there being, literally, nothing to burn; but
certainly what most strikes the unaccustomed
eye Is the immense mass Of stoneworl, the long
range OF supplementary passages and stairs ne
cessary to form theatre. They cover between
were taken in at the 6arS or workneh's entrance,
where we saw two Egyptian columns, not In good
taste, and much too small, which are to adorn
the actors entrance; md then we were gradually
brought back TO the place where we had entered
and were thence dismissed TO our breakfasts.
dlcted that the 18th OF November would
SEQ the whole OF the outer works finished,
and that on the 18th OF August, 1870, the
tion is probable, but doubt the possibility OF the
second Inside there is nothing but the rough,
bare stones and the cement which binds them..
have necessarily given you O very imperfect idea
Of the Interior OF the Grand OPERA but an archi-
tect alone could describe the coming theatre from
quite tabooed; they viii not show You model or
plan, and the eonsfgne Of the man In uniform
who Is toled OF TO conduct you over the structure
"to answer no questions.n
Strangers are admitted with great difficulty,
with ono card. No doubt they fear the crowd Of
native faheurS.