This is not uncommon when you borrow audio-guides at museums.ĭuring our 90 minute tour, was informative and provided interesting commentary. license or passport) that she held onto in exchange for the headphones. We did have to provide her with a piece of identification (ie. And no matter how close or far we were from her, we could hear her. These headsets amplified her voice but her words remained very clear.
Our tour guide spoke excellent English and explained how the opera house can get very busy and crowded and rather than try to speak over all the voices, she would speak into a microphone and we would be able to clearly hear her using special headphones. Interesting fact #1: the Pythia sculpture was done in bronze by Marcello who was actually a woman, Adèle d’Affry, the Duchess Castiglione-Colonna. Throughout much of the Paris Opera there are symbols of Greek mythology and as you head to the Grand Escalier (Grand Staircase) you pass by La Pythonisse (or Pythia), priestess of the god Apollo greets you. The Rotonde des Abbonées is a circular room or vestibule that has pillars on the perimeter, mosaic tiles on the floor, and a very decorative ceiling.
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