Don’t fence her in. In the opera house, the mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey shapeshifts from the psychopathic emperor Nero in Claudio Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea (1645) and the naïve young monk Adso of Melk in Francesco Filidei’s Il Nome della Rosa (2025) to the aging Elizabeth I losing her grip in Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto melodrama Maria Stuarda. So, it should surprise us not at all when she turns to the Kurt Weill songbook. Her program Thousands of Miles explores not only the hits he wrote in his native Germany but also the more obscure work he wrote in America, on the run from the Nazis. Lindsey’s companion on this odyssey without borders is the pianist Baptiste Trotignon, whose specialty—as the adaptable Weill would be happy to hear—is jazz. A carefully curated mix of songs by Erich Korngold, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Alma Mahler completes the program. —Matthew Gurewitsch