Today I will say goodbye with Mariella Devia singing "Com’è bello!" from Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia".

One more post off the beaten path, Nina Simone performing "Strange Fruit" at Jazz à Juan, the International Jazz Festival from Juan-les-Pins, France, in 1965. (The festival still takes place every year.) Nina appears alongside Lisle Atkinson (bass), Rudy Stevenson (guitar & flute) and Bobby Hamilton (drums).

A small detour with Es Devlin's Library of Light in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano. It was available this spring, and every evening at 8 o'clock, there was a recorded reading of extracts from "The Order of Time" by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch, and preceded by an extract from "Il Cielo Mistico" by Maria Gaetana Agnesi. It’s underscored by Polyphonia with extracts from Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61. In the second video, her newest installation, "Library of Us," is located on the beach in Miami.

Happy 2nd Sunday of Advent! ”O du fröhliche“ with the Philharmonic of Vienna.