Joyce DiDonato performs EDEN — With Il Pomo d'Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev
The mezzo-soprano takes her widely acclaimed blockbuster album on tour: arias and songs from four centuries in a memorable staging
Cast
Aino Saksanen — Chorus director
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev — Conductor
Program notes
Mezzo-soprano extraordinaire Joyce DiDonato's 2022 album EDEN was only the starting point for a multi-year tour that has seen her use her extraordinary voice to spread a message of connection — with our planet and with one another — across 45 cities on four continents. It is our honor to present this project on medici.tv, as Joyce's multi-sensorial, multi-era, multi-genre program comes to the Turku Music Festival in Finland. With a striking staging by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, lighting design by John Torres, and music by longtime collaborators Maxim Emelyanychev and the award-winning ensemble Il pomo d'oro, EDEN showcases Joyce at her very best in captivating repertoire spanning more than four centuries, including arias by Gluck and Handel, sublime songs from Mahler's Rückert-Lieder, Charles Ives's haunting The Unanswered Question, and a breathtaking new commission by Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman. Bringing a "glorious sense of home" and evoking "tearful wonder," Joyce once again delivers "a performance so beautiful that it makes your insides ache" (Gramophone).
Joyce DiDonato appears courtesy of Warner Classics.
Photo © Sergi Jasanada / Parlophone Records
