Joyce Di Donato 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