COLUMBUS, Ind. — The woman who has performed at such prestigious venues as Lincoln Center and with orchestras and operas nationwide now lists her Seymour driveway as one of her most powerful concert experiences ever.
Perhaps that’s because she is driven to connect one-to-one as personally and as artistically as possible with audience members, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. So Donata Cucinotta drops any emotional masks and says that maybe her most unspoken compliment from an audience member is to see their tears when she sings.
“I sing to move people,” she said.
The soprano vocalist and her guitarist/singer next-door neighbor, Dr. David Hartung, a family physician, both aim to do that — to move listeners both to tears and to laughter during their free concert at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bartholomew County Library Plaza, 536 Fifth St. in downtown Columbus. Their performance, titled “Cul-de-sac Renaissance Concert,” is so labeled because she and next-door neighbor Hartung began performing together while social distancing in their driveways in their cul-de-sac with others on Easter Sunday during the COVID-19 quarantine.
“That first one was just a magical event,” Cucinotta said of the multi-faceted event. “It was one of the most magical memories of my performing career. It was all so beautiful.”
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