This May, Joyce DiDonato joins the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra for Hector Berlioz’s emotional and gripping scène lyrique, La Mort de Cléopâtre (The Death of Cleopatra), under the baton of Edward Gardner. Based on a text by poet Pierre-Ange Vieillard, La Mort de Cléopâtre tells of Cleopatra’s suicide after her defeat at Battle of Actium. Rather than offering a conventional, {…}