Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato chooses the Athens Concert Hall as a stop on her international tour to present the "Eden" project, which travels from 2022 to 2024 to 45 cities and 5 continents and is presented for the first time in Greece ( with Greek subtitles), on Tuesday, May 30 at 8:30 p.m., in the Christos Lambrakis Hall.

The three-time Grammy Award-winning American mezzo-soprano takes us on an emotional journey that speaks to people's hearts, seeking to reconnect with nature. Joyce DiDonato motivates us to change our attitude towards the planet and suggests that we experience a holistic musical experience that extends beyond concert venues. It transports us to an oasis of song and seeds‒real seeds, which can be planted, to be distributed to audiences outside the concert hall‒and urges us to take active environmental action in gardens, streets, wherever our voices can be heard.

The "Eden" project is a musical journey through four centuries in dream compositions by Francesco Cavalli, Aaron Copland, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Georg Friedrich Handel, Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler and others. Among them, the song "The First Morning of the World", which was commissioned by Oscar winner Rachel Portman and premiered in the context of "Eden", as well as "Seeds of Hope" ["Seeds of hope"], the anthem of "Eden". In fact, this song is the result of the collective effort of the children of the Canterbury Choir (United Kingdom), who participated in an environmental awareness workshop organized on the occasion of "Eden".

Joyce DiDonato is accompanied by Orchestra il Pomo d'Oro conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, who also performs the harpsichord parts. Dancer and choreographer Manuel Palazzo takes part as an actor. With them, the Youth Choir of El Sistema Greece under the musical instruction of Vaia Papagiannopoulou. The direction is by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, and the lighting by John Torres.
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When:

30 May 2023 at 20:30

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