Performance: Joyce DiDonato Sings Camille Claudel-Into the Fire

Following a discussion with composer Jake Heggie and Camille Claudel curator Emerson Bowyer, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performs Heggie’s 35-minute song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with the Brentano Quartet.
Into the Fire dives deep into the romantic, rebellious world of artist Camille Claudel, transforming her powerfully emotive sculptures and tragic life into music.
Camille Claudel: Into the Fire
Music by Jake Heggie
Lyrics by Gene Scheer
Copyright © 2011 by Bent Pen Music. All Rights Reserved. Sole Agent: Bill Holab Music.
Joyce DiDonato appears courtesy of Warner Classics.
The Brentano String Quartet features Misha Amory on viola, Serena Canin on violin, Nina Lee on cello, and Mark Steinberg on violin.
Generously supported by the Green Research Fund and the Carol Given Winston Fund.
Lead support for Camille Claudel is provided by an anonymous donor.
Major funding is provided by the Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, an anonymous donor, Amy and Paul Carbone, Marion A. Cameron-Gray, Nancy and Sanfred Koltun, Barbara and James MacGinnitie, Monika A. McLennan, Robin and Sandy Stuart, and Diane M. Tkach and James F. Freundt.
Members of the Luminary Trust provide annual leadership support for the museum's operations, including exhibition development, conservation and collection care, and educational programming. The Luminary Trust includes an anonymous donor, Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel, Jr., Kenneth C. Griffin, the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, Josef and Margot Lakonishok, Ann and Samuel M. Mencoff, Sylvia Neil and Dan Fischel, Cari and Michael J. Sacks, and the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation.