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classical music, opera, theatre

Joyce DiDonato: EDEN

il Pomo d'Oro

no interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • Early Music Festival

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The American lyric mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is a beloved star at New York's Metropolitan Opera and one of the top artists of the musical stage of our time. With an inexhaustibly rich repertoire, she sings nearly everything, from Handel and Mozart to Janáček and Emmerich Kalman. She is fond of singing theme-based recitals with a clear line of thought behind them, which she then transforms from a concert into a theatrical event using sets, costumes and lighting effects. Now she is once again getting ready to enchant the Müpa Budapest audience with an elaborate experience, accompanied by her outstanding partners of an internationally renowned early music ensemble and their versatile leader.

In this, her next large-scale project, Joyce DiDonato's artistic imagination and energy as a performer will embrace an exciting subject of overarching significance: the Garden of Eden. Her programme will explore the majesty, power and mystery of nature. The works that she will be performing and the theatrical effects employed can be described as ones of disarming power and evocative suggestiveness. The singer invites the audience on an emotional journey connecting us to the music of Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Gluck, Mahler, Ives and the contemporary composer Rachel Portman through the power and fragility of nature, finding - or perhaps even changing - our place in the kaleidoscope-like and miraculous world that surrounds us. The diva's old artistic allies of Il Pomo d'Oro, who play on period instruments - this time under the baton of the multifaceted young conductor Gergely Madaras - create an authentic acoustic environment for the singing and acting with historically informed playing, while French director Marie Lambert-Le Bihan and lighting effects designer John Torres are making sure the audience will get to take part in a genuine experience of the musical stage that evening.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Sections

  • Ives: The Unanswered Question
  • Rachel Portman: The First Morning of the World - Hungarian première
  • Mahler: Rückert Lieder - No. 2, "Ich atmet' einen linden Duft!"
  • Uccellini: Sinfonia No. 3 (for five instruments), Op 7.
  • Marini: Scherzi e canzonette, Op. 5 - No. 3, "Con le stelle in Ciel che mai" (Natività di Christo, per canto solo da cantarsi nel chitarrone)
  • Mysliveček: Adamo ed Eva (oratorio), Part 2 - "Toglierò le sponde al mare" (aria of the Angel of Justice)
  • Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson for Voice and Chamber Orchestra - No. 1. "Nature, the gentlest mother"
  • Valentini: Sonata enharmonica
  • Cavalli: La Calisto - "Piante ombrose" (Calisto's aria from Act 1)
  • Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Dance of the Furies from Act 2
  • Gluck: Ezio - "Misera, dove son!...", "Ach non sono io che parlo" (Fulvia's recitative and aria from Act 3
  • Handel: Theodora (oratorio), Part 1 - "As with rosy steps the morn" (Irene's aria)
  • Mahler: Rückert Lieder - No. 3. "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"

Conductor:

  • Gergely Madaras
  • mezzosoprano
    Joyce DiDonato

Featuring:

  • actor
    Manuel Palazzo
  • Péter Vajda Musical Primary and Sport School Children's Choir (choirmaster: Géza Farkas)

Creators:

  • Lighting designer
    John Torres
  • Director
    Marie Lambert-Le Bihan
  • Executive producer
    Joyce DiDonato

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