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World famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin join forces to take on one of the most brilliant song cycles ever written: Schubert s Winterreise (Winter Journey). DiDonato however casts a different light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs in telling their story from the perspective of the woman the lost love. Nancy Plum Town Topics writes: The question of what happened to the woman who sent the narrator on a tortuous journey was not answered in the Wilhelm Müller poetry from which Schubert drew the text but DiDonato created a scenario onstage of being that woman reading from the narrator s journal and responding to the inherent despair. What stood out was the heavy emotion that came through in her singing as she lingered on a syllable here pressed her tone there. She created vivid feelings with her contrasts wrote New York Classical Review about Joyce Didonato s interpretation.
