Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three - Emily

JOYCE DIDONATO'S FIRST TIME IN LITHUANIA
For more than two decades, Joyce DiDonato's name has held a distinguished place at the top of the world's classical music. Winner of three Grammy Awards, Gramophone Award, Echo Klassik Award, International Opera Awards and Laurence Olivier Award, she is deservedly considered the most titled and influential opera singer of our time. Her performances adorn the programs of New York's Metropolitan Opera, London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Paris National Opera, and the most important music festivals in the world.
Critics call her voice an exceptional phenomenon in modern music. The New York Times wrote of DiDonato: "Her voice is no less than 24 karat gold", and BBC Music called her "one of the most perfect singers in history". But the phenomenon of Joyce DiDonato lies not only in exceptional vocal prowess. Each of her performances becomes a major artistic event, which combines music, theater, poetry and deep human experience.
For her first performance in Lithuania, Joyce DiDonato will present her latest project "Emily: No Prisoner Be" - one of the most significant musical works of recent years. This is an impressive collaborative project created with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Time for Three and Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts, one of America's most important contemporary composers. The world premiere of the piece took place in 2025 at the Bregenz Festival and immediately attracted huge international attention.
The work is based on the poems of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. From more than 1,800 of her texts, a cycle of twenty-four interconnected musical scenes was created, telling the story of man's search for inner freedom. Following Dickinson's words, the music guides the listener from loneliness and self-limitation to love, self-knowledge, inner strength, and spiritual liberation.
Emily: No Prisoner Be can hardly be called a traditional vocal cycle. It is a work that exists at the intersection of chamber opera, theater, concert and poetic drama. Kevin Puts has created music that combines the emotional directness of the American musical tradition with an operatic scale and contemporary musical language. Joyce DiDonato's vocal part requires not only exceptional technique, but also an enormous dramaturgical range, turning each poem into a story in its own right.
A special role in the project is played by Time for Three - one of the most original classical music groups of today. Grammy winners and regular partners of the world's most famous orchestras combine classical music, jazz, American folk traditions and elements of popular culture in their work, creating a unique sound that cannot be attributed to any one genre.
The American press greeted the premier with great enthusiasm. The New York Times wrote that Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three "bring the piece to life with extraordinary power", with the singer's voice "ranging from a powerful dramatic sound to the thinnest, almost imperceptible thread of sound". Other critics called the project one of the most important new vocal works of recent years and highlighted the exceptional artistic ambition of its creators.
The first performance of Joyce DiDonato in Lithuania will be not only the long-awaited debut of one of the greatest artists of our time, but also an opportunity to get acquainted with the work, which is already being called a new page in the history of vocal art of the 21st century.

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Doors open: 1 a.m. until the start of the event Duration: 1:10
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