Joyce DiDonato: Il Complesso Barocco at Barbican Hall

Joyce DiDonato with a selection of arias from the great queen roles in baroque opera by composers including Handel, Monteverdi, Gluck and Haydn. DiDonato has assumed a regal status among mezzos for her musical brilliance, dramatic presence and disarming warmth of personality on stage and off. Here she dons the crown to portray some of opera's greatest queens. Troubled, assertive, powerful and vulnerable, these are character portraits by some of the most evocative composers in history including Monteverdi, Handel, Haydn and Gluck. DiDonato is joined on the Barbican stage by her friends and regular collaborators Alan Curtis and his ensemble Il Complesso Barocco.