Hill Auditorium
EDEN
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
il Pomo d’Oro
$12-20 student tickets available
Fusing music, movement and theatre, EDEN is a breathtaking, through-performed tour de force from the multi-award-winning Joyce DiDonato that’s been immediately celebrated as “iconic” and “ground-breaking.”
By traveling seamlessly through four centuries of music — including a new commission from Academy-Award winning composer Rachel Portman — a searing and singular experience of hope and connection unfolds.
Joyce invites you to join her in an evening celebrating the majesty, might, and mystery of Nature through the transformative power of music. In her wide-ranging personally curated program, DiDonato invites us to return to our roots and to explore whether or not we are connecting as profoundly as we might to the pure essence of our being, to create a new EDEN from within and plant seeds of hope for the future.
DiDonato is joined by her long-standing, celebrated musical partners, Il Pomo d’Oro, and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev.
To ensure that the EDEN experience continues to grow outside of the concert hall, each audience member receives seeds to plant as Joyce asks: “In this time of upheaval, which seed will you plant today?”
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