Enter for your chance to win a limited‑edition double LP signed by Joyce DiDonato. The competition closes on Christmas Day; the winner will be contacted on 3 January, 2017.

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One of opera’s most outspoken and impassioned personalities, Joyce DiDonato reminds us with her new album In War and Peace that music – throughout the ages, and now more than ever – “soothes turmoil, threatens power and the status quo, and gloriously exalts the spirit”. Her selection of arias demonstrates how powerfully Baroque opera explores the extremes of human nature – from the tumult of Handel’s Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe to Purcell’s unforgettable descent into despair, Dido’s Lament. Energetic Italian Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, with harpsichordist/conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, are sensitive partners on this unique journey through music towards the peace we are all striving for.