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Release Date: February 25, 2022

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JD w/Kate Lindsey on Handel's Agrippina at the Met
1 Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question  
2 Rachel Portman - The First Morning of the World  
3 Gustav Mahler - Rückert-Lieder “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!”  
4 Biagio Marini - Scherzi e canzone Op.5  
5 Myslivecek: Adamo ed Eva, Pt. 2:  
6 Aaron Copland - 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Nature, the gentlest mother  
7 Giovanni Valentini - Sonata enharmonica  
8 Francesco Cavalli - Opera La Calisto, Aria: “Piante ombrose”  
9 Christoph Willibald Gluck - Opera Orfeo ed Euridice Wq. 30, Danza degli spettri e delle furie  
10 Christoph Willibald Gluck: Ezio, Wq. 15, Act 3,  
11 Christoph Willibald Gluck: Ezio, Wq. 15, Act 3,  
12 George Frideric Handel - Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1:  
13 Gustav Mahler - Rückert-Lieder “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”  
14 Richard Wagner - 5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme WWV 91  
15 George Frideric Handel - Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 1,  
16 George Frideric Handel - Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 1,  
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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.

  • Joyce DiDonato awarded Concertgebouw Prize / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: February 21, 2024
    Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to The Times, Joyce has towered at the top of the industry both as a performer, a producer, a...

  • Renee Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning 'The Hours' into opera / The Guardian
    Posted At: December 7, 2022
    The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it offThe Guardian's Imogen Tilden writes…..Renée Fleming is rarely seen on an opera house stage today. The star soprano announced five years ago that she was retiring – not from opera, but from performing many of the roles, the Desdemonas, Violettas and Ma...

  • Joyce DiDonato - Eden
    Posted At: May 27, 2022
    Whether it’s prison reform, the plight of refugees, music education for all, or the industry-defining ‘In War and Peace,’ opera superstar Joyce DiDonato transcends the physical confines of the concert hall. DiDonato has long been an artist who has dedicated herself to creating and initiating projects that challenge and galvanise the public.Her latest initiative; EDEN, is one that she will dedicate much of h...

  • With purity and incisiveness, Joyce DiDonato is in top form on 'EDEN' / LIMELIGHT
    Posted At: March 25, 2022
    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 de...

  • Sound is first-rate on Joyce DiDonato's EDEN. Warmly recommended / THE CLASSIC REVIEW
    Posted At: March 9, 2022
    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 de...

  • Joyce DiDonato chats with BBC Sounds: This Cultural Life
    Posted At: March 5, 2022
    Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by the New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to the Times, Joyce has soared to the top of the industry both as a performer and a fierce ad...

  • Joyce DiDonato's wordless wondering in 'The Unanswered Question' from EDEN makes NPR's favorite music of February
    Posted At: March 1, 2022
    NPR Music's Ann Powers, Marissa Lorusso, Reanna Cruz and Tom Huizenga join host Lars Gotrich as they share their picks for the best music they heard in the month of February and Joyce DiDonato's wordless wondering in 'The Unanswered Question' from EDEN makes the list.From prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, to the industry-defining In War and Peace, opera superstar J...

  • Joyce DiDonato's 'Eden' is colourfully varied / La Scena Musicale
    Posted At: February 28, 2022
    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 de...

  • Joyce DiDonatos 'Eden' addresses climate change with a deeper meditation on our relationship with nature / GRAMOPHONE
    Posted At: February 6, 2022
    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 de...

  • February 2022 issue of GRAMOPHONE, features Joyce DiDonato's 'EDEN'
    Posted At: January 26, 2022
    GRAMOPHONE writes… In the February issue of Gramophone we interview the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato about her climate crisis-driven project, ‘EDEN’, embracing a global tour, an education programme and an Erato album.From Press Release…….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...

  • Joyce DiDonato to pay tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: October 7, 2020

    On Oct. 14, Joyce DiDonato will join The Peace Studio's ongoing 100 Offerings of Peace campaign. The mezzo will pay tribute to the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a video tribute performing America the Beautiful. The tribute will include the seldom heard second verse, which speaks to those "who more themselves their country loved" – a fitting description of the late Supr...

  • Teatro Mayor streaming Joyce DiDonato's 'In War and Peace' / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: April 3, 2020

    The Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo will present Joyce DiDonato's "In War and Peace" through its Teatro Digital between April 2 to 9, 2020. The concert, which features Il Pomo d'Oro, will be shown on the Teatro Mayor's Facebook page and on the www.teatrodigital.org. The program features baroque music from composers Händel, Leo, De Cavalieri, Purcell, Gesualdo, and Pärt. The concert w...

  • Joyce DiDonato and Kate Lindsey talk 'Handel's Agrippina' / GRAMOPHONE: Video of the day
    Posted At: February 26, 2020

    Joyce DiDonato and Kate Lindsey spare five precious minutes during the intermission of Handel's Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York to talk about the opera Anew recording of Handel's Agrippina starring Joyce DiDonato is among the Editor's Choice recordings in the March issue of Gramophone. DiDonato is also currently performing the role at the Met in New York alongside Kate Lindsey...

  • Joyce DiDonato stars in 'MET Agrippina: LiveinHD' / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: February 25, 2020

    The Met Opera's Live in HD series for the 2019-20 season continues this Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 with a transmission of "Agrippina," which was composed by Handel to a libretto by Grimani. The broadcast, which kicks off 12:55 p.m. Eastern time, will feature Joyce DiDonato in the title role with Brenda Rae as Poppea, Iestyn Davies as Ottone, Matthew Rose as Claudio, Kate Lindsey as Nerone, Dunan Rock as...

  • Joyce DiDonato will present eclectic repertoire from her GRAMMY Award-winning 'Songplay' in Harris Theater expanded 2020-21 season / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: February 7, 2020

    The Harris Theater's musical offerings will expand significantly during the 2020-21 season. In addition to ongoing attractions such as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, which will mark its 10th year in residence at the Harris, the institution will present a new lineup of vocal recitals. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will present "Songplay," featuring the stylistically eclectic repertoire from h...

  • Tennessee Tech alum; Craig Terry wins GRAMMY for his work on Joyce DiDonato's 'Songplay' / Herald Citizen
    Posted At: February 2, 2020

    A musical journey that began with "wonderful music teachers and mentors"  has now resulted in a Grammy Award for a Tennessee Tech alumnus. Craig Terry, who received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1996, won a Grammy  for his collaboration on Joyce DiDonato's "Songplay," which won for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.  "I was completely shocked," he said about his reaction to the new...

  • Joyce DiDonato wins 2020 GRAMMY Award 'Best Classical Solo Vocal Album' for 'Songplay'
    Posted At: January 27, 2020

    With her album Songplay, Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. It brings a tan...

  • Joyce DiDonato - Songplay makes WCRB '5 albums to watch at the 2020 GRAMMY Awards'
    Posted At: January 23, 2020

    The 2020 GRAMMY Awards air this Sunday night! One of the GRAMMY-nominated classical albums we've had our eye on this year is Songplay by Joyce DiDonato, Nominated for: Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Why we love it: Here's what DiDonato herself told us in an interview about this album that takes classical songs like Rosa's "Tu lo sai" and Giordani's "Caro mio ben" and gives them a ja...

  • Joyce DiDonato makes jazzed up Italian love songs sound indispensable / npr:Tiny Desk Concert
    Posted At: January 13, 2020

    When opera star Joyce DiDonato told us she wanted to sing centuries-old Italian love songs at the Tiny Desk we weren't surprised. But when she said she was bringing a jazz band to back her up, we did a double take. But that's Joyce, always taking risks. After all, the last time we filmed the down-to-earth diva, she insisted on singing an opera aria at the Stonewall Inn, the iconic gay tavern in G...

  • Joyce DiDonato - Songplay makes Treble '10 Best Jazz Albums of 2019'
    Posted At: December 22, 2019

    We've cycled through a lot of of our favorite music of the year: Our Top 50 Albums of 2019 and our Top 100 Songs of 2019. And beyond that, our favorite metal, hip-hop, electronic, jazz and missed albums of the year. And now we're sharing our individual top 10 lists of the year to close it out. Here's what we, individually, liked a lot this year. Konstantin Rega selected 'Joyce DiDonato – So...

  • Joyce DiDonato - Songplay selected for 2020 GRAMMY nomination
    Posted At: November 20, 2019

    Joyce DiDonato - Songplay selected for 2019 GRAMMY nomination in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category. With her album Songplay, Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up...

  • Joyce DiDonato speaks with 89.7WCPE - The Classical Station about 'Songplay'
    Posted At: June 14, 2019

    With her album 'Songplay,' Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. It brings a tango siz...

  • Joyce DiDonato's 'Songplay' proves that the music and lyrics, lend themselves well to different styles / All Classical Portland
    Posted At: June 4, 2019

    Soprano Joyce DiDonato's recording projects are seldom conventional. Her last, "Hopes and Dreams: The Lullaby Project" featured original songs to texts by new mothers, some of whom were experiencing financial insecurity. Her newest, Songplay, goes back to her roots as a budding singer.  She rediscovered the arias that all young singers are taught, and then set aside. What makes these new are the jaz...

  • Joyce DiDonato interviews with VIAPublicMedia
    Posted At: May 17, 2019

    With her album 'Songplay,' Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a sam...

  • Joyce DiDonato chats with Spokane Public Radio
    Posted At: May 8, 2019

    With her album Songplay, Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected, and the album serves up Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. As Joyce DiDonato explains:  "When you are just starting ...

  • Joyce DiDonato is lovely and warm, glowing like a full moon on Songplay / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: April 11, 2019

    Armed with a clear and classical voice, Joyce DiDonato mixes Italian arias with jazz standards on this clear as Waterford crystal collection She teams with an impressive lineup arranged by pianist Craig Terry, which includes Chuck Israels/b, Jimmy Madison/dr, Lautaro Greco/band and Charlie Porter/tp-fh. Her enunciation of Italian gems such as "Tu Lo Sai" and "Vedro con mio Dioletto" is lovely and warm, g...

  • In her wonderful mezzo-voice, Joyce DiDonato presents an album of new takes on 'Arie Antiche' / Classical101:WOSU
    Posted At: March 22, 2019

    Ask most any singer today what they were first taught to sing, and they'll produce a beat-up copy of a yellow-covered volume from G. Schirmer called 24 Arie Antiche. These are Italian songs from the 17th and 18th centuries, many of them arias from obscure operas. They are considered good for students because they do not require an extended vocal range. They do require, and they are used to teach, the...

  • Joyce DiDonato finds a baroque blue note on 'Songplay'
    Posted At: March 15, 2019

    For Joyce DiDonato, the divide between the heralded sounds of the Baroque and the popularity of the Great American songbook is really a false one. Her new release "Songplay," which includes arias from Vivaldi and Giordani alongside popular jazz standards from the likes of Rogers & Hart,  is a testament to this. "I've always talked about how essentially it's like jazz," she says, dis...

  • Joyce DiDonato, with a small ensemble, blend italian art song with the american songbook / KDFC
    Posted At: March 14, 2019

    Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato says the balance for the heaviness of the past two years, when she's been touring an emotional ‘War and Peace' program, is her new project, called Songplay. She and her accompanist, Craig Terry are joined by a small ensemble of jazz players as they revisit a blend of Italian art songs and the American songbook. "I think it was really the perfect time," she says, "to bre...

  • Joyce DiDonato discusses 'Songplay' mix with 91.3WGTE Toledo
    Posted At: March 14, 2019

    With her Warner Classics album; Songplay, Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. It brings a tango sizzle to ...

  • Joyce DiDonato, bringing jazz and baroque together / CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
    Posted At: March 11, 2019

    People are pretty much never just one thing. Each person is made of the stuff in their individual history, including the music. That includes Grammy-winning opera singers. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato recently completed a project that brought the disparate parts of her own musical history together. And because she's Joyce DiDonato, this meant bringing top notch performers from across the musical spectrum...

  • Joyce DiDonato chats with IdeaStation: WCVE - Breakfast Classics
    Posted At: March 10, 2019

    Grammy award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato recently spoke with me about her new album "Songplay," where she takes a new and creative approach to vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. It is truly a mix of genres, with classical, jazz and tango all represented. "Songplay, as a title, suggests exactly what this album is," says the pianist Craig Terr...

  • In advance of 'Celebrity Series of Boston' appearance, Joyce DiDonato chats with WCRB
    Posted At: February 27, 2019

    Joyce DiDonato's newest project, Songplay, is hard to squeeze into any particular box - as DiDonato muses, "it feels like we're still trying to define it a little bit." Broadly speaking, it is an album that takes classical songs like Rosa's "Tu lo sai" and Giordani's "Caro mio ben" and gives them a jazz treatment, creating something wholly fresh out of old baroque standards. At the same t...

  • KPR speaks with Joyce DiDonato about new album and upcoming Metropolitan Opera season
    Posted At: February 26, 2019

    Joyce DiDonato took the old Italian songs and arias sung by every aspiring classical student as the basis for her new album, Songplay. Her all-star team of musicians arranged the songs in jazz and samba styles. She intersperses those with show tunes and jazz standards of our own time. The 14 tracks succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected, and the album serves up music by Vivaldi in b...

  • Joyce DiDonato's 'Songplay' again and again on Radio Purdue: What's New
    Posted At: February 25, 2019

    The latest from mezzosoprano superstar Joyce DiDonato deserves to be played, again and again! Songplay features Joyce with pianist Craig Terry (who helped mastermind the lush project), and four jazz musicians in standards, arias, and simply fun songs. WBAA's John Clare spoke to Joyce about the new Erato release. You're going to want to listen to it again and again! Oh, and she'll be back at t...

  • Joyce DiDonato talks Songplay with US Radio
    Posted At: February 21, 2019

    With her Warner Classics album; Songplay, Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century. The 14 tracks on Songplay succeed in being simultaneously familiar and unexpected. The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. It brings a tango sizzle to ...
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