Mezzo-soprano and UMS Digital Residency Artist Joyce DiDonato turns her creative vision and artistry to her next great passion: EDEN.

Joyce DiDonato explores both humanity’s essence and the majesty, might, and mystery of Nature. EDEN will include an expansive repertoire including works of Ives, Handel, Cavalli, Gluck, Mahler, Wagner, Valentini, Marini, Myslivececk, and a new composition by Rachel Portman. Joined by the 25-member historical performance ensemble il Pomo d’Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev, as well as the French stage director Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, DiDonato will create a truly unforgettable experience of music that balances both nature and life itself.

Joyce DiDonato, executive producer and mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
il Pomo d'Oro

PROGRAM
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Rachel Portman The First Morning of the World
Gustav Mahler “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!” from The Rückert Songs
Marco Uccellini Sinfonia terz (a cinque stromenti), Op. 7
Biagio Marini “Con le stelle in Ciel che mai” from Scherzi e canzone, Op. 5
Josef Mysliveček “Toglierò le sponde al mare” from Adam and Eve (Part II)
Aaron Copland “Nature, the gentlest mother” from 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson for Voice and Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Valentini Sonata enharmonica
Francesco Cavalli “Piante ombrose” from La Calisto (Act I, Scene 14)
C. W. Gluck Danza degli spettri e delle furie: Allegro non troppo
from Orfeo ed Euridice Wq. 30
C. W. Gluck “Misera, dove son!…Ah! non son io che parlo” from Ezio
G. F. Handel “As with rosy steps the morn” from Theodora, HWV 68 (Part I)
Gustav Mahler “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” from The Rückert Songs