Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to The Times, Joyce has towered at the top of the industry {…}
Growing up, the predominant topic around my family’s dining table was “Vocation”. This idea of vocational service has formed most of my life’s choices, including many surrounding my work in the arts. From the beginning of my unexpected career I have sought out ways to bring the transformative, healing power of music to as many people as I can....
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, {…}
