Joyce DiDonato speaks exclusively to Presto Classical about ’In War and Peace’

Joyce DiDonato discusses her new disc ’In War and Peace: Harmony through Music’ (available now at ). We asked her: Most of the characters who appear on the disc are victims of conflict rather than aggressors or warriors: was it a conscious decision to focus on them rather than on figures who glorify war? Several of the women here would be equally at home on Drama Queens (and vice versa) – did this project grow out of the material you explored with that earlier d