Recording Review
Handel: Agrippina
The Times
"Bow down before Rome’s mother from hell: Joyce DiDonato is mistress of all she surveys as his scheming empress, with an expressive palette and tonal beauty to match the finest {…}
Recording Review
Crossover Magazine: Joyce DiDonato is lovely and warm, glowing like a full moon on Songplay
Crossover Magazine Armed with a clear and classical voice, Joyce DiDonato mixes Italian arias with jazz standards on this clear as Waterford crystal collection She teams with an impressive lineup arranged {…}
Recording Review
Songplay review: Joyce DiDonato dazzles with a jazz-Baroque hybrid
The new release from mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, which she’ll perform in UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 20, is a stunningly beautiful and original affair. It’s also deliciously high-concept, {…}
Feature
Opera Magazine: Joyce DiDonato awarded an honorary RIAM fellowship
“Joyce DiDonato has been given honorary fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The conductor Roland Böer has been awarded the Grifo Poliziano and made an honorary citizen of {…}
Recording Review
Berlioz’s Les Troyens wins Gramophone’s 2018 Recording of the Year Award
‘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 {…}
Recording Review
La Clemenza di Tito
"Among the many sparkling facets of Joyce DiDonato’s artistry, her singing of Mozart repertoire perhaps does not receive the attention that her performances of Baroque, bel canto, and contemporary music {…}