A true melding of the heard (Fauré’s Requiem) and the seen (Mat Collishaw’s film).

FranceFrance Gounod, Fauré, SKY BURIAL: Child from the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine (treble), Amital Pati (tenor), Samuel Hasselhoen (baritone), accentus, Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor), Mat Collishaw (video). Patrick Devedjian Auditorium, La Seine Musicale, Paris, France, 15.2.2023. (CC)

Sky Burial © Julien Benhamou

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Strong singing elsewhere in the Royal Opera’s Tannhäuser current revival compensates for the ailing main man

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Tannhäuser (1875 version): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sebastian Weigle (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1.2.2023. (CC)

Gerald Finley (Wolfram von Eschenbach) and Lisa Davidsen (Elisabeth) © Clive Barda

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Charpentier at Christmas: Les Arts Florissants’s beautiful, truly touching Barbican concert

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Charpentier at Christmas: Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (conductor) with Emmanuelle de Negri, Julie Roset (sopranos), Nicholas Scott (high tenor), Bastien Rimondi (tenor), Lisandro Abadie (bass-baritone). Barbican Hall, London, 19.12.2022. (CC)

Charpentier at Christmas: William Christie (conductor) © Mark Allan/Barbican

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