It’s hard to look at Joyce DiDonato as she sits on the stage of Athens’s Megaron Concert Hall, surrounded by 77 children, and not think of Maria von Trapp. “We’ll sit like this, because I want to sing something just for you,” she says during a rehearsal for that evening’s concert, speaking to the children of the El Sistema Greece Youth Choir in the honeyed voice of a midwestern kindergarten teacher.
“What Do You Do with It When You Go Home?”
On the road with Joyce DiDonato’s EDEN
