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10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January
A Verdi opera from the Met and composers on the border of classical and pop are among the highlights.
Luciano Pavarotti and Aprile Millo in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” which will be streamed by the Metropolitan Opera.Credit.Met Opera Archives
Dec. 31, 2020
As the live performing arts still reel from the coronavirus pandemic, here are 10 highlights from the flood of online music content coming in January. (Times listed are Eastern.)
‘Lonely House’
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This winter, Katharine Merhling was scheduled to reprise her Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” at the Komische Oper in Berlin. The pandemic got in the way, but the company’s devoted audience need not spend the season without this singer’s gifts. This performance (first streamed live late in December) offers a fresh look at Kurt Weill, focusing on that composer’s years in Paris and New York. Devotees know many of these songs. But Ms. Mehrling’s energy aided by Bar
Cat-erwauling. Quirijn de Lang as Tom Cat and Wallis Giunta as the Child in Opera Northâs staging of LâEnfant et Les Sortilèges by Ravel. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
Is there a choral singer anywhere who doesnât know Christopher Smartâs cat, Jeoffry? Smartâs feline companion is the subject of 74 enchanting lines of his visionary poem Jubilate Agno (1759-63), set to music by Benjamin Britten in his cantata Rejoice in the Lamb. Smartâs poem was written in an asylum where he had been incarcerated â for mania â with only Jeoffry for company.
This real-life feline is the subject of my book, Jeoffry: The Poetâs Cat, in which I wanted to capture how a cat could be both solace and muse to the creative artist.