With helmets and protective suits, the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang the medieval monument in Paris for the first time since last year’s devastating fireplace for a special Christmas Eve concert.
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Accompanied by a famous violinist, a rented organ and a solo soprano, 20 singers directed the stained glass windows of the cathedral in the middle of the church in the dark, going from a precarious and damaging cleaning operation to a large reconstruction site.
The singers have stayed socially away in order to remove the mask, which is necessary within France to stop the spread of the virus, and sing. The concert was recorded on Saturday and will be broadcast on Thursday night. The public could not see the interior of Notre Dame until at least 2024.
The diocese called it a “highly symbolic concert arrangement. . . “emotional and hopeful “and a birthday party of a” musical legacy dating back to the Middle Ages. “
The Archbishop of Paris, Archbishop Michel Aupetit, will celebrate Christmas Eve on Thursday at the Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois church in front of the Louvre Museum instead of Notre Dame.
The Notre-Dame choir gave 60 concerts a year inside the cathedral, but has been traveling ever since, moving among other Parisian churches. The April 2019 fireplace fed on the lead ceiling of the cathedral and destroyed its needle, and it wasn’t until last month. that the staff, in spite of everything, stabilized the site enough to initiate reconstruction.
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