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The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

An invigorating all-day tribute to the maverick French composer-conductor felt like the end of an era. Plus, heartfelt Mahler and a star mezzo’s Winterreise

The Guardian - UK

Winterreise by Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev at Wigmore Hall

5/5 Schubert’s song cycle is interpreted in powerful style by Joyce DiDonato, accompanied by Maxim Emelyanychev

Evening Standard

DiDonato/Emelyanychev review – ingenious artistry brings Schubert’s bleak Winterreise to life

Joyce DiDonato’s theatrical skills enabled her to feminise the cycle in a particularly original way, before Strauss’s Morgen! gave us all hope

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Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins

The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form

The Guardian - UK

Joyce DiDonato stars in `Eden in Olympia' coinciding with Paris Games, a call to climate action

While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed in ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of creation and carnage

The Independent UK

Jephte/Dido and Aeneas review – magnificent DiDonato brings understated passion to Purcell

Joyce DiDonato probed Dido’s desire and anguish with characteristic subtlety, while the Pomo d’Oro Choir were superb in Carissimi’s Jephte

The Guardian - UK

Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version

Jake Heggie's version of “Dead Man Walking” reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean

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The Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – white-hot music drama

Making their first visit to the UK in two decades, the New York orchestra – with Joyce DiDonato and Angel Blue – wrung every drop of emotion from Shakespearean music by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Berlioz and Matthew Aucoin

The Guardian - UK

Farrenc: Symphonies 1-3; Overtures review – music of energy and verve from sidelined composer

Laurence Equilbey and her orchestra champion compatriot Louise Farrenc’s orchestral works, revealing energy and verve to rival her 19th-century peers

The Guardian - UK

Met cuts season to 18 operas, matching fewest in 4 decades

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season

The Independent UK

The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

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 off

The Guardian - UK

‘It feels like something different’: turning The Hours into an opera

The acclaimed book and Oscar-winning movie, about three women grappling with despair, is making an unusual leap to the stage in New York

The Guardian - US

After fine-tuning, 'The Hours' with Fleming opens at the Met

Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” has had more than a few hours of changes since it was first heard in a pair of concert performances in Philadelphia last March

The Independent UK

Joyce DiDonato: Eden at Barbican Hall review: seeds of hope in a blighted world

The superstar soprano is touring this nature-focused show to five continents

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The talented women who had their eyes, if not their hands, on the prize

Valentine Prax’s fluid, vital paintings are an adjunct in a show of works by sculptor husband Ossip Zadkine. As in art, so in life

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Joyce DiDonato’s Eden; Coco Tomita’s Origins

Spanning Ives and Mahler to Rachel Portman, the mezzo-activist hits nature’s reset button; the BBC young violinist’s debut is a winner; plus, a great Opera on 3

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The week in classical: Theodora; OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything – review

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work allows Handel’s genius to shine through

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