Tatiana and her older sister Olga had followed their father back to his opera box and witnessed the shooting.

But if she wasn't a ghost or a hallucination, who was she, standing here in the doorway of the opera box he'd shared with Katerina?

The ice cubes are made of Perrier, and guests favored by the management are seated in a private opera box alongside the stage.

A renovation in 1927 added distinctive opera boxes and shortly thereafter the projection equipment was updated to play sound film.

The auditorium's procenium was flanked with marble columns and gilded opera boxes.

Even the "opera box" cable cars were white and could be seen from afar ferrying up and down the hill.

Small silent garden rooms with a view into the hall are created in the spaces between the walls, just like opera boxes for reading, loving or dreaming.

During her first performance, a murder takes place in one of the opera boxes.

"I reinvented the shoe as a speedboat," above, "a car, a leopard and even an opera box," he says.

An improvement scheme in 1927 added six distinctive opera boxes and further balcony seating.