The facade incorporates major multifigure groups sculpted by Franois Jouffroy (Harmony), Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugne Guillaume (Instrumental Music), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (The Dance, criticized for indecency), Jean-Joseph Perraud (Lyrical Drama), and other work by Gumery, Alexandre Falguire and others.The interior consists of interweaving corridors, stairwells, alcoves and landings allowing the movement of large numbers of people and space for socializing during intermission.

The two gilded figural groups Harmony and Poetry were both designed by Charles Gumery, and the two smaller bronze Pegasus figures at either end of the gable are from Eugne-Louis Lequesne. Between the columns of the theatre's front faade, there are bronze busts of many of the great composers, Mozart, Rossini, Daniel Auber, Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Fromental Halvy, Spontini, and Philippe Quinault.The central roof group, Apollo, Poetry, and Music, was the work of Aim Millet. The style is monumental and considered typically Beaux-Arts, with use of axial symmetry in plan, and its exterior ornamentation.The Palais is opulently decorated with elaborate multicolored marble friezes, columns, and lavish statuary, many of which portray the deities from Greek mythology. It seats an audience of roughly 2,200 under a central chandelier which weighs over six tons, and has a huge stage with room to accommodate up to 450 artists. Description Although slightly smaller in scale than its predecessor, the Thtre de l'Acadmie Royale de Musique, the Palais Garnier is a building of exceptional opulence.

Paris opera house ceiling painting