Sep 13, 2018 | News | Press | Recording Reviews | No Comments
‘A peach of a recording’ is how I signed off my original review of this account of Berlioz’s Les Troyens last December – ‘a thrilling new benchmark for this epic opera’. I completely stand by that assessment today – this set from Erato is an absolute stunner. I attended the second of two concert performances in Strasbourg last year from which the recording was taken (along with a patching session). Not only was it my outstanding concert of 2017, the resulting set was easily my disc of the year too.
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Sep 6, 2018 | News | No Comments
Joyce DiDonato has been awarded Opus Klassik‘s Operneinspielung des Jahres (Opera recording of the year) for her recording of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. This is the second major award for this recording, having already won the Opera category in the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Awards.
The Opus Klassik, a new award for classical music, will be awarded for the first time at the Konzerthaus Berlin on Sunday, October 14. After the Echo Awards ended this spring, exceptional achievements in the classical music genre will once again be recognized this year. The awards ceremony will be broadcasted on October 14 at 10 pm CET by the media partner ZDF.
Sep 5, 2018 | News | 3 Comments
Ireland’s leading music conservatoire, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, last night [Tues 4 Sep] awarded the distinguished American mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato, with the
Fellowship Honoris Causa, the highest artistic and academic accolade the institution can bestow. Since the RIAM’s foundation in 1848, only 58 individuals have received the honour for their outstanding services to music, including the internationally renowned composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Olivier Messiaen, mezzo-soprano Ann Murray DBE, flautist, Sir James Galway, and the Director of London’s Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly OBE.
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Sep 1, 2018 | News | No Comments
Tune in this Sunday, September 9 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) to watch a performance of Massenet’s Cendrillon recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera.
Laurent Pelly’s imaginative production of Massenet’s operatic take on the classic fairy tale Cinderella stars Joyce DiDonato as the titular heroine and Alice Coote as Prince Charming, alongside Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, Laurent Naouri as Pandolfe and Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts. Ailyn Pérez hosts.
Aug 31, 2018 | News | 1 Comment
Nominated in the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, Erato’s album of Berlioz’s Les Troyens featuring Joyce DiDonato as Didon has won the opera category for award-winning record. The Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony will take place on September 13. More
Aug 21, 2018 | News | No Comments
This September, Joyce DiDonato begins her 2018/19 season with concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the BBC Proms in London. More
Jul 23, 2018 | News | No Comments
Joyce DiDonato greets you with a song in her heart and twinkle in her eye. The American mezzo-soprano’s album Songplay unites extraordinary musicians from the varied worlds of opera, jazz and tango in the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation and exchange. Together they create their own musical language, surprising listeners with timeless melodies transformed and universal stories retold over centuries; songs in English, in Italian and – naturally – in the universal language of music.
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Jul 9, 2018 | News | No Comments
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Florence Foster Jenkins on July 19, the drama/documentary The Florence Foster Jenkins Story, directed by Ralf Pleger and starring Joyce DiDonato, is now available on Amazon Prime UK and Amazon Prime USA.
Jul 2, 2018 | News | 1 Comment
On July 14, Joyce DiDonato returns to Paris for the sixth annual ‘Concert de Paris’ to celebrate Bastille Day. DiDonato was previously featured in the concert in 2015 and is thrilled to perform in the momentous occasion once again. Under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, the Orchestre National de France, and the Radio France Chorus will take the stage with celebrated artists including Aida Garifullina, Patricia Petibon, Philippe Jaroussky, Matthias Goerne, Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu, Renaud Capuçon, and Khatia Buniatishvili. The concert is free to the public and will take place at the feet of the Eiffel Tower in the Champ-de-Mars.
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