“The world needs you. Now, the world may not exactly realize it, but wow, does it need you. It is yearning, starving, dying for you and your healing offer of service through your Art. We need you to help us understand that which is bigger than ourselves, so that we can stop feeling so small, so isolated, so helpless that, in our fear, we stop contributing that which is unique to us: that distinct, rare, individual quality which the world is desperately crying out for and eagerly awaiting. We need you to remind us what unbridled, unfiltered, childlike exuberance feels like, so we remember, without apology or disclaimer, to laugh, to play, to FLY and to stop taking EVERYTHING so damn seriously.”
Read the entire speech here.
Jun 23, 2017 | News | No Comments
Joyce DiDonato is nominated for a 2017 Bachtrack Opera Award in the “Best Female Singer” category, recognizing her “brilliant” role debut as Semiramide at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Winners for all categories will be selected by online ballot – place your vote at the link!
Jun 22, 2017 | News | No Comments
The archived broadcast of Joyce DiDonato’s performance with the Berlin Philharmonic can now be enjoyed via the ensemble’s Digital Concert Hall. Ms. DiDonato sang Berlioz’ La Mort de Cléopâtre on a programme that also featured Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye Suite for Orchestra and Stravinsky’s L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), all conducted by Ludovic Morlot. Watch the broadcast here: Digital Concert Hall – Joyce DiDonato in Concert
Jun 12, 2017 | Concert Reviews | News | Press | No Comments
GoldenPlec
by Michael Lee
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That this is no ordinary concert is clear before even entering the auditorium. On the programme stands there are cards for everyone in the audience, inviting answers to the question ‘in the midst of chaos, how do you find peace?’
Joyce DiDonato, touring with period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, has themed this concert ‘In War and Peace: Harmony Through Music’. Once inside, the lighting is low, there is a smudge of dry ice in the air, and there is the singer herself, seated statue-like at the rear of the stage while at the front a male figure lies on the ground, his body twisted like a torso from a baroque painting.
Jun 12, 2017 | Concert Reviews | News | Press | No Comments
Music can express different emotional states, as well as be a kind of commentary on a nowadays world’s events.. It has a special power, that almost every musician tries to catch and deliver to the audience. And there is one person, who actually takes up the effort to make it more real and to achieve peace through music. And, she makes you believe, that it is possible.
And it was just like this, on 30th May in Berliner Philharmonie with Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d’Oro. There was a concert from the tour: “War and peace, harmony through music”. But word “concert” is just insufficient. It was more than a concert, or just a “performance”. Joyce took us on a journey with mythological heroines, baroque truth and reality …
Jun 8, 2017 | News | No Comments
On July 6 & 9, Joyce DiDonato sings Sextus as part of a starry cast for the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden’s 2017 Gala, highlighting Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito in concert, in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon for a future CD release.
Jun 7, 2017 | News | No Comments
On June 10 & 11, El Sistema Greece is hosting their patron, Joyce DiDonato, and resident ensemble, Il pomo d’oro, in masterclasses and performances at Skaramagkas and Elaionas refugee camps, as well as at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
Since its launch last November, El Sistema Greece has expanded to four sites and provides free music education to several hundred children in the country’s refugee camps.
Jun 7, 2017 | News | No Comments
Joyce DiDonato stars in the drama/documentary The Florence Foster Jenkins Story, out now on DVD in Germany.
Jun 4, 2017 | Features | News | Press | No Comments
La Nueva España
by Andrea G. Torres
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Joyce DiDonato (1969) es la diva de la ópera más carismática del panorama actual. Su personalidad y arraigo para enfrentarse a los contratiempos de la vida, han hecho de ella una mujer decidida, que sabe lo que quiere y que pelea muy duro todos los días para conseguirlo. Su optimismo ante la adversidad es una de sus grandes virtudes, incluso en un mundo, como el actual, marcado diariamente por la tragedia. La mezzo estadounidense presenta en el Auditorio de Oviedo el próximo martes, 6 de junio, a partir de las 20.00 horas, “En guerra y paz”, su último y más comprometido proyecto, que pondrá fin a la presente temporada de “Los conciertos del Auditorio”, ciclo que patrocina LA NUEVA ESPAÑA.
Jun 4, 2017 | Concert Reviews | News | Press | No Comments
Seen and Heard International
by José M. Irurzun
There was a long speech by the artist at the end where she expressed her concerns about the current situation in the world, including what happens in her own country, which was very well received by the audience.
Ms. DiDonato opened with Storgé’s aria from Handel’s Jephta, which served to warm up her voice, and then moved on to a brilliant interpretation of ‘Prendi quel ferro’ from Leonardo Leo’s Andromaca. She was magnificent in the famous ‘Remember me’ which ends Dido and Aeneas, followed by Agrippina’s aria from the eponymous Handel opera. The first half of the concert ended with a moving interpretation of the well-known ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Handel’s Rinaldo.
Ove t’aggiri (Pacini)
O di sorte crudel (Caraffa)
Par che mi dica ancora (Donizetti)
There will always be more freedom to acquire and more truth to uncover.
~ Joyce DiDonato
