Just when I think we’ve reached the limits of what can be accomplished in the pandemic’s virtual isolation, something new comes along to surprise me. Bass-baritone Zachary James’s protean talents are known to cross popular musical theater (he created Lurch in The Addams Family on Broadway) and opera (notably in the Met’s Akhnaten); now, James also shows himself to be an accomplished video artist.

Call Out—a “visual album” in 25 episodes, ranging from less than 30 seconds to 21-plus minutes—is a journey in music (all of it by female composers), poetry (many sources, from Sappho, to Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, to original contemporary works) and imagery…

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