Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three: "Emily - No Prisoner Be"

View the Program What happens when Joyce DiDonato, “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” ( The New Yorker ), teams up with genre-crossing Time for Three, “chamber musicians who turn a concert into a show” ( Pittsburgh-Post Gazette ) for a bespoke musical work exploring Emily Dickinson’s inner world? “I could see from the start [ Emily: No Prisoner Be ] wasn’t going to be your grandmother’s Emily Dickinson song cycle,” says composer Kevin Puts, whose work The Hours has won the hearts of opera fans. Synthesizing heart-stirring music, evocative video projections, and incomparable poetry, this theatrical concert celebrates the singular genius of Dickinson’s unrestrained creativity and complex emotions, using a selection of 24 of her poems with theatrical elements.