Enter here for your chance to win a signed double LP set of “In War & Peace” from Warner Classics/Erato! The competition closes on Christmas Day, and the winner will be contacted on January 3, 2017.

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.