Atlas Obscura
‘Phantom of the Opera’ Box in Paris, France
Box 5 at the Palais Garnier is a real-life theater box in Paris permanently dedicated to Gaston Leroux’s fictional "Phantom of the Opera." Located inside the breathtaking Palais Garnier opera house, this specific piece of seating bridges the gap between historical fact and gothic fiction. When journalist Gaston Leroux published The Phantom of the Opera in 1910, he insisted until his deathbed th…
theater box permanently dedicated to 'Phantom of the Opera'