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Cal Performances’ multimedia ‘Emily—No Prisoner Be’ brings Dickinson’s poetry to life with music

Coloratura mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato jumped at the chance to sing a song cycle based on Emily Dickinson’s poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts.   “‘No’ was never an option for me,” says the opera star, who was portraying Virginia Woolf in Puts’ premiere of “The Hours” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2022 when the composer approached her about a new piece pairing her with the string-vocal trio Time […]

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