Wagner’s Lohengrin
LIVE IN CINEMAS MARCH 18
“Tremendous ... ★★★★★” —Financial Times
This month, the Met’s Live in HD season continues with Wagner’s soaring epic Lohengrin, conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Tenor Piotr Beczała takes on the heroic title role in François Girard’s striking new production—recently named a New York Times Critic’s Pick! The remarkable cast of Wagnerians also features soprano Tamara Wilson as Elsa, soprano Christine Goerke as Ortrud, bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin as Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck as King Heinrich.
On Stage This Month
In addition to Lohengrin, this month sees the first revival of David McVicar’s searing staging of Norma (pictured) since its celebrated premiere in 2017, starring riveting soprano Sonya Yoncheva as the druid priestess at the heart of Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece. Audiences can also experience Verdi’s poignant tragedy La Traviata, Puccini’s gripping Tosca, and a pair of brilliant comedies: Verdi’s Falstaff and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.
AND...
JOYCE DIDONATO
Music programme includes specially commissioned Eden anthem ‘The First Morning of the World’ from academy award-winning composer Rachel Portman
Every audience member to receive a seed to plant as they’re asked:
‘In this time of upheaval, which seed will you plant today?’
From prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, to the industry-defining
In War and Peace, opera superstar
Joyce DiDonato has long been an artist who has dedicated herself to creating
and initiating projects that challenge and galvanise the public, transcending
the physical confines of the concert hall.
EDEN is DiDonato’s latest multi-faceted initiative, one that she will dedicate much of her time over the next four years to, uniting music, drama, and education to confront questions of our individual connection to Nature.
Comprised of a tour of over 45 venues across five continents between
2022-24, an Erato album, ground-breaking education programme, and multiple
partnerships, EDEN’s long-term impact and legacy will be far reaching.
DiDonato’s passionate belief, and the driving force behind EDEN, is
that a collective return to our “best selves” is needed to not only address our
current climate crisis, but the crisis of heart, as well. By examining our
relationship to the natural world and our unique place within it, EDEN invites
the listener to explore and search for answers about belonging, purpose, and
healing.
“With each passing day,” writes DiDonato, “I trust more and more in the perfect balance, astonishing mystery and guiding force of the natural world around us, how much Mother Nature has to teach us.
EDEN is an invitation to
return to our roots and to explore whether or not we are connecting as
profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being, to create a new EDEN
from within and plant seeds of hope for the future.”
Alongside her long-standing orchestral partners, Il Pomo d’Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev DiDonato will collaborate with stage director Marie Lambert and Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, combining music from different genres with a stage setting designed to connect the audience with the very heart of the natural world around us.
DiDonato describes how, in challenging times, contact with the natural world in conjunction with her musical life makes her “feel connected and sense that I’m an integral part of something bigger.
A seed is awakened
within me. This is precisely when I seek out the comfort and connection of
music: with each passing day I trust more and more in the perfect balance,
astonishing mystery, and guiding force of the musical world. Both nature and
music are showing us the way – a way dictated by harmony and balance. Will we
answer the call?”
The Erato album EDEN is released on February 25th, 2022 and the international tour begins on March 2, 2022 in Brussels.
The repertoire for both is richly diverse, pulling from the timeless theme of nature which has captivated composers over the centuries with each track exploring an aspect of humankind’s relationship with nature and will, in DiDonato’s words, “have no boundaries – like a wild garden.”
Ranging from the 17th to the 21st century, and embracing such
composers as Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Ives, Copland and Oscar-winner
Rachel Portman – who DiDonato has commissioned to write a new work specially
for EDEN – the programme is at the heart of this visionary project……………..
https://joycedidonato.com/recordings/eden/
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