The Olympia Paris: concerts, tickets, history and how to get to the legendary hall on boulevard des Capucines

The Olympia is a concert hall in the 9th arrondissement at 28 boulevard des Capucines, between the Madeleine and the Opéra Garnier. It holds about 2,000 people (some 1,985 seated and 2,824 in standing concert layout, according to Wikipedia) and programmes singers, bands and comedians almost every night. Tickets are sold on the hall's official site (olympiahall.com) or at its box office; prices vary by show and we do not quote them here.

Highlights

The façade and its red letters

The lit sign on the boulevard is the classic photo of the hall; you can see it without a ticket.

A history of legends

A music hall opened in April 1893 by Joseph Oller (La Goulue headlined), turned cinema in the late 1920s, then a concert hall from 1954 under Bruno Coquatrix; Édith Piaf sang here, and the Beatles played 18 nights from January to February 1964.

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