As one Vogue editor experienced, a live-streamed fundraiser for the Metropolitan Opera and a stirring tribute to Stephen Sondheim demonstrated the healing power of music, even in a pandemic.
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Then the stars came fast and furious—Lawrence Brownlee, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jamie Barton, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel , and Anita Rachvelishvili—masterfully performing their numbers and then doing remote handoffs to the next artist. The joy on their faces was palpable as they enthusiastically greeted longtime colleagues they had not seen in weeks and may not see for weeks and months more to come.
After the final performance , Nézet-Séguin called this a “strange and terrible time.” But he also offered a message of hope. “Music and the arts cannot be silenced,” he said. “We shall return.” In the chat rooms, people were going crazy, and comparing the event to the famously disastrous run ofBut, then, Broadway.com took to Twitter to promise a reboot, and a half hour later , the show was back on—and began, appropriately enough, with the overture toA starry rendition of “The Ladies Who Lunch" by the cocktail-swigging trio of Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Audra McDonald.
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