22 April 2022, 15:10 | Updated: 22 April 2022, 16:59
By Kyle Macdonald
The world-famous opera singer releases a new single, with a new generation asking the question: ‘What if trees could sing?’
For Joyce DiDonato, music is always linked to the big questions and challenges of our time. Her projects over recent years have focused on prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, and our times of war and peace.
Now, she turns to the natural world, and our future with it, working with school children to find the musical message for our time and theirs.
Read more: Who is Joyce DiDonato? Get to know the American operatic mezzo-soprano
School children from Bishop Ramsey CE School, London were invited to write a piece themselves, with the help of the opera star, their teacher, and the natural world around them.
To create the song, the mezzo …