in 1964, the ceiling was repainted by french artist marc chagall.y opulent auditorium. guess this could be a case of some people saying, "if it's not baroque, do fix it." apparently, the supporters of chagaln.l wo his painted ceiling remained. garnier not only designed the building. the architect also designed its massive seven-ton chandelier. if you say the play or movie phanto opera, you'll remember the chandelier played a key role. (violin music) in fact, in real life, part of the massive chandelier did indeed fall and killed a worker. long before it was a play, the phantom of the opera was a book, published in 1911 by gaston leroux. interestingly, leroux would make one of paris's most beautiful locations the home of one of paris's ugliest literary characters. the story of the phantom is kept very much alive at the opera house. box number five is permanently reserved for him. so was there ever a real phantom? leroux claims there was. rejected by the woman he loved, the phantom supposedly starved himself to death in his underground hideaway. eeril