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Travelers can spend a night in the Parisian opera house that inspired the Phantom of the Opera, novel from real events and legends surrounding Palais Garnier
The stay also includes a private ballet lesson taught by one of the Paris Opera’s ballet dancers, a private recital by Paris Opera Academy artists, dinner in the rehearsal room behind the stage, and a tour of the building’s private dance studios. The guests will also get a tour of the Palais Garnier’s hidden areas, including its underground lake and archives.
The Phantom of the Opera has been the longest-running Broadway show since 2006. In recent years, the production has been struggling with declining ticket sales and inflation, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic. Later this spring, after 35 years, the production will end its record-setting run.
Fittingly, the Airbnb host is Véronique Leroux, the great-granddaughter of Gaston Leroux, who wrote the original novel in 1910. Leroux, who originally published the story as a series of installments in newspapers, drew inspiration from real events and legends surrounding the Palais Garnier. For example, the underground lake in the phantom’s lair is based on a real-life body of water that exists beneath the Palais Garnier where Parisian firefighters practice swimming without lights, according to the Los Angeles Public Library.
