When you can't attend a performance, it comes to you: The show goes online

As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means

Teatro La Fenice in Venice, one of the most famous opera houses in the history of theatre, is an 18th-century establishment that has had its share of tormented history, an almost necessary condition to be counted among the greats. Three devastating fires couldn’t extinguish its eminence and neither, it seems, can the novel coronavirus. In the opulent opera house, one that can seat an audience of 1,126, a string quartet from Barcelona took to the stage and played Beethoven — without a single individual in the audience. La Fenice live-streamed the 57-minute performance on March 2, allowing their music to