Het Parool
"Daar stond ze, verhalenverteller Joyce DiDonato, met een volstrekt onopgesmukt stemgeluid. Ze maakt zo’n voorstelling, ze is een verschijning, tegelijkertijd valt ze samen met het verhaal en de muziek en {…}
Dallas Observer
"But, oh, what wonders were unfurled across 90 minutes, as coloratura mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Dallas-based vocal quartet Kings Return, accompanied by pianist Craig Terry, indulged a vibrant cross-section of {…}
South China Morning Post
"DiDonato’s deeply felt Piante ombrose was a high point of the performance, as was her exquisite interpretation of Mahler’s delicate Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (I breathed a gentle fragrance). Her {…}
Classical Voice North America
"Feb. 8 welcomed a bracing touring attraction, with Maxim Emelyanychev leading his energetic, excellent ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro with their regular collaborator Joyce DiDonato, clearly beloved in Paris. The American {…}
New York Classical Review
"Overstory Overture is very much in line with older tonal modernism—it shares some specific colors and vocal phases with some vocal works of Samuel Barber—giving it the unexpected feeling of an {…}
San Francisco Classical Voice
"Whether she was singing of nature’s consolations, turbulent love, or the combustive depredations of war, DiDonato was nothing less than spectacular. Her expressive articulation of the texts, exquisite phrasing, and {…}