
Programme and performers
Programme and performers
Programme
Joseph Haydn Arianna a Naxos
1. Recitative: Teseo mio ben
2. Aria: Dove sei, mio bel tesoro?
3. Recitative: Ma, a chi parlo?
4. Aria: Ah! che morir vorrei
Gustav Mahler Rückert-Lieder
1. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! (Look not, love, on my work unended!)
2. Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (I breathed the breath of blossoms red)
3. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (O garish world, long since thou hast lost me)
4. Um Mitternacht (At midnight hour)
5. Liebst du um Schönheit (Lov'st thou but beauty)
Johann Adolph Hasse 'Morte col fiero aspetto’ from Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra
George Frideric Handel ‘É Pur così in un giorno...Piangerò la sorte mia’ from Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Hector Berlioz ‘Ah!, Ah!, Je vais mourir... Adieu fière cité’ from Les Troyens
Giuseppe Giordani Caro mio ben (arr Craig Terry)
Alessandro Parisotti & Salvatore Rosa Se tu m’ami/Star Vicino
Duke Ellington (In My) Solitude (arr Craig Terry)
Louiguy La Vie en Rose (arr Craig Terry)
Performers
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Craig Terry piano
Artist biographies
Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Joyce DiDonato has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker.
Joyce’s exciting 2021/22 season includes European tours of her baroque-inspired programme My Favourite Things with Il Pomo d’Oro, as well as her Winterreise and In My Solitude recital programmes with Craig Terry in St Petersburg, Luxembourg, London (Barbican), Bilbao and Valencia. Joyce will also return to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Irene in Handel’s Theodora.
Recent highlights have included European performances of In My Solitude, a Met Stars Live in Concert series recital and Winterreise at the Musikverein Vienna and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Maxim Emelyanychev and Yannick Nézet-Séguin respectively.
Joyce’s recent operatic roles include Agrippina at the Met and Royal Opera House, Didon Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper, Sesto, Cendrillon and Adalgisa Norma at the Met, Agrippina in concert with Il Pomo d’Oro, Sister Helen Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real Madrid and Barbican, Semiramide at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Royal Opera House, and Charlotte Werther at the Royal Opera.
Joyce’s expansive discography includes Les Troyens - 2018 International Opera Awards Best Recording (Complete Opera), BBC Music Magazine Opera Award, Gramophone Recording of the Year - and Handel’s Agrippina - Gramophone Opera Recording and Limelight Opera Recording of the Year 2020. Other albums include Winterreise with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Songplay, In War & Peace - 2017 Best Recital Gramophone award, Stella di Napoli, Grammy-Award-winning Diva Divo and Drama Queens.