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Joyce DiDonato stars in `Eden in Olympia' coinciding with Paris Games, a call to climate action
- While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed from ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of creation and carnage. In a series of scenes set to music from Baroque to Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder” through “The First Morning of the World” by Academy Award-winner Rachel Portman, director Olivier Simonnet visualizes DiDonato’s audio recording released two years ago, a call to action on climate change. “I find it comforting to know that this isn’t the first time we’ve been facing difficult things as a species on the planet, but we do have the power to set things right,” DiDonato said this week.
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