I made this video of Girodet's painting "The Revolt of Cairo" at the request of Sylvain Bellenger curator of the Girodet exhbition at the Museum of Beaux Arts in Montreal (2006) and the former MBAM director Guy Cogeval. The music is by Benjamin Britten on a poem by Arthur Rimbaud in Illuminations. The tenor is Ian Bostridge, music ©EMI LTD