The Paris Opera House.
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Europe is the continent. Paris Opera by Charles Garnier architect, at Paris, France, 1857 to 1874 and it is known as Garnier Paris Opera House.
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The Paris Opera House (the Opera Populaire). However in real life the opera house is called the Palais Garnier (or Opéra de Paris, Opéra Garnier, or Paris Opéra.) The Opera Populaire was merely made up for the show.
Phantom of the Opera is set in the Paris Opera house.
The Opera Ghost, also known as the Phantom of the Opera, was a man who was born disfigured, & who hid in the basements below the Opera House in Paris. He fell in love with one of the chorus girls, according the story written by Gaston Laraoux(sp.). He apparently really did exist.
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Innumerable events have taken place at the Paris Opera House since construction for it began in 1861.
The largest opera house in Europe is the Bastille Opera house in Paris with a capacity of over 2700 seats.
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The entire Opera Populaire in the film was built by the movie makers, on separate stages and as separate exteriors. They said they wanted it to be a complete, sensual character of its own. However, the original Gaston Leroux novel bases the story around the Metropolitan Opera House in Paris, which apparently does has an extremely deep labyrinth of passages beneath the opera house, and at the bottom a lake.