Sarah McLachlan at Orpheum Theatre, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.

The first thing there was to notice about Sarah McLachlan as she took the Orpheum stage on Thursday was her voice. Not that it was lithe and swooping and clear and sympathetic, seemingly undiminished even a little from the singer/songwriter’s heyday three decades ago — all true things — but the fact that she had one at all.

Last October, McLachlan was touring behind the 30th anniversary of her breakthrough album “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy,” with stops scheduled in Boston and elsewhere around New England, when an ill-fated case of laryngitis forced her to cancel a whole bunch of shows so she could go on vocal rest for several months. A little over a year later, she finally made it back to Boston, telling the crowd, “I’m so happy

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