Joyce DiDonato »In War and Peace«
Hamburg International Music Festival
»In the midst of chaos, how do we find peace?« Joyce DiDonato answers this question in her newest programme, recently recorded on her CD »In War and Peace«. It is DiDonato’s firm belief that »art unifies, transcends borders, and connects the disconnected, and is a valiant path to peace«.
Through well-known arias and rediscoveries from forgotten opera dramas, the distinguished American singer allows the heroes and rulers like Cleopatra, Rinaldo, Caesar and Dido to speak. That these intense moments in Baroque opera still manage to strike a nerve is certainly due to the emotional power of the music as well as the intoxicating and electrifying interpretation of this soprano.
Performers
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano and executive producer
Il Pomo d’Oro
Manuel Palazzo choreography, dance
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord and musical director
Henning Blum lighting design
Yousef Iskandar video design
Ralf Pleger stage direction
Programme
»In War and Peace - Harmony through Music«
Georg Friedrich Händel
Jephtha / Oratorium in drei Akten (Auszüge)
Leonardo Leo
Prendi quel ferro, o barbaro! / »Andromaca«
Emilio de' Cavaliere
Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (Auszüge)
Henry Purcell
Chaconne g-Moll Z 730
When I Am Laid in Earth / Dido’s recitative and aria from »Dido and Aeneas«, Z 626
Georg Friedrich Händel
Pensieri, voi mi tormentate / Arie der Agrippina aus »Agrippina«
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
Tristis est anima mea
Georg Friedrich Händel
Lascia ch' io pianga / »Rinaldo« HWV 7b
– Interval –
Henry Purcell
They tell us that you mighty powers / »Die indianische Königin«
Georg Friedrich Händel
Crystal streams in murmurs flowing / »Susanna« HWV 66
Arvo Pärt
Da pacem Domine / für Chor und Streichorchester
Georg Friedrich Händel
Augelletti / Arie der Almirena aus »Rinaldo« HWV 7a
Dopo notte, atra e funesta / Arie des Ariodante aus »Ariodante«, HWV 33
Encore:
Niccolò Jommelli
Par che di Giubilo aus / aus »Attilio Regolo«
Richard Strauss
Morgen! op. 27/4
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