Joyce DiDonato is by no means the first female singer to wrest Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise from the clutches of the legions of tenors and baritones whose preserve it remained for two centuries after the work’s composition. Brigitte Fassbaender and Alice Coote are among other women to lay claim to one of the major landmarks in the singer’s repertoire.
DiDonato first performed her reading in 2019 at Carnegie Hall, subsequently recording it. This spring she has brought it to London, Antwerp and Berlin.
