Credits: Joan Azorin - Ville de Marseille
Caption: Opéra Façade
Credits: Joan Azorin - Ville de Marseille
Caption: Opéra - Escaliers
Credits: Joan Azorin - Ville de Marseille
Caption: Opéra - Entrée - Extérieur
Credits: Joan Azorin - Ville de Marseille
Caption: Opéra - Entrée - Intérieur
Credits: Joan Azorin - Ville de Marseille
Caption: Opéra - Hall
Location type
Categories
Environment
City
General presentation
Inaugurated in 1787, the Opera of Marseille is the second large theater built in the provinces after Bordeaux.
The fire of November 13, 1919 spared only the exterior structures : the walls, the colonnade and the peristyle.
Everything else is the work of a collective of architects and artists who created for its reconstruction, between 1919 and 1924, the most important hall of typically "art-deco" architecture in France.
Classified as Historical Monuments.
Location Condition Type
Well maintained
Dominant style
Art deco
Specific styles
Covered - Indoor
Remarkable architectural elements
Balcony,
Column,
Corridor,
Stairs (monumental),
Pediment,
Metal Gate,
Perron - Steps,
Portico (architecture),
Statue