Joyce DiDonato - Heggie/mcnally: Great Scott - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Life meets art Joyce DiDonato stars in a live world-premiere recording of an opera written for her Great Scott by Jake Heggie In Great Scott, the Kansas-born mezzo-soprano, one of today's best-loved classical singers, creates a role conceived specifically with her in mind. The character she plays, Arden Scott, just happens to be an opera star, and she is the lynchpin of what Fred Plotkin of WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a Inchdeeply moving and musically brilliant workInch that Inchshould enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man WalkingandMoby-Dick - already haveInch. Jake Heggie, who has been described as US opera's most successful composer, chose the celebrated playwright Terence McNally as his librettist for Great Scott. The two previously collaborated on the gripping Dead Man Walking, which has become something of a modern classic since it's premiere in 2000. Joyce DiDonato first performed it's central role, Sister Helen Prejean, at New York City Opera in 2002 and will do so again in concert stagings in London and Madrid in January/February 2018 coinciding with the album of Great Scott.