In her most recent cycle, Candida Höfer captures two Paris opera houses: the neoclassicist Palais Garnier (1875), original "Phantom of the Opera" site, and the modern-style Opéra Bastille (1989). Devoid of people, as usual, foyers, orchestras, stages, wings, and boxes evoke the stories, the music, the performers and the audience during a night at the opera.
Schirmer/Mosel. English/German/French edition. With a text by Gérard Mortier. 80 pages, 31 colour plates, 26.5 x 34 cm, hardcover.