Friday 6 July at 19.30 UK time
Joyce DiDonato live from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Review from The Arts Desk. Review from The Independent
Joyce Didonato - mezzo-soprano with David Zobel - piano
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Joyce is donating 5 personal photos of Venice for auction.
The proceeds go to “Wigmore Hall Learning“
Programme - 19.30
Vivaldi - From Ercole sul Termodonte: Onde chiare che sussrrate. Amato ben
Fauré - Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’
Rossini - La regata veneziana
Schubert - Gondelfahrer
Interval – “Requiem for a Garden of Eden” – information
Schumann - From Myrthen: Zwei Venetianische Lieder
Head - Three songs of Venice
Hahn - Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénetien
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About this concert
Named as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2010, DiDonato, a committed recitalist, here celebrates her love of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, but extends it outwards in a programme themed around another of her passions, Venice.
I really tried to like this – but the Vivaldi with piano just put me right off and couldn’t get into after that – though the Faure was nice. Suspect I’m just one of those “less perfect” voice fans.
I have this on my “to do” list & won’t be at all influenced by what you say
Listening now. I just love her.