Joyce DiDonato: In War And Peace

„In the midst of chaos, how do you find peace?“, is one of the pressing topical questions that Joyce DiDonato asks in her work In War & Piece: Harmony through Music. The Grammy Award winning mezzo-soprano fashions an intense semi-theatricalized concert at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, including works by Händel and Purcell. Organizing a set of baroque arias along thematic lines, DiDonato contemplates the interwoven worlds of external conflict and serenity, internal war and peace, together with the period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev. She “channels anguish particularly well, especially in the music of Händel” (Washington Post).