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Festival de Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis's spring and early-summer classical music festival stages choral and orchestral works inside the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the medieval royal necropolis holding nearly all of France's monarchs. The building's Gothic architecture and acoustics shape much of the programming, from requiems to large-scale sacred choral works.
The Festival de Saint-Denis stages classical and sacred music inside the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the medieval royal necropolis just north of Paris where nearly all of France's kings and queens are buried, alongside performances in other venues across the city over roughly two months in spring and early summer.