Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here.
8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents
Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s
Stelé for two percussionists, David Maric’s
Nascent Forms for mallet quartet, and David T. Little’s
Haunt of Last Nightfall for percussion quartet and electronics. View here.
Verdi’s
La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE
2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920),
Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents
Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a journey from the Deep South to New York, from Russian poetry to an African paradise. The program includes Florence Price’s spiritual arrangements, Margaret Bond’s
7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents
The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s
Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Jewish Diaspora. Recorder virtuoso Daphna Mor explores Sephardic song and Jewish liturgical poetry while viola da gamba player Elizabeth Weinfield highlights the contributions of 17th-century converso composer Leonora Duarte. Additional guests to be announced. View here.
12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.