Latest News: Classical, Joyce DiDonato (Mezzo-Soprano)
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro 28th October 2022A starry cast headed by Lisette Oropesa and Joyce DiDonato offers a wealth of fresh insights into Handel’s oratorio about religious persecution and intolerance in ancient Rome on this new studio recording, made after a run of concert-performances across Europe.
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Video Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on EDEN 7th March 2022The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new album on Erato, and answers some questions submitted by Presto readers along the way...
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Recording of the Week,
Joyce DiDonato's EDEN 25th February 2022Featuring music by composers including Ives, Cavalli, Handel, Gluck and Wagner (plus a ravishing new commission by Rachel Portman), the American mezzo's eclectic new concept-album with Il Pomo d'Oro explores our relationship with 'the grammar of the earth'.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on Winterreise 27th April 2021The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new recording with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which approaches Schubert's great song-cycle from the perspective of the woman whom the narrator leaves behind...
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Agrippina starring Joyce DiDonato 31st January 2020The American mezzo sings the title role of the scheming Roman matriarch in a starrily-cast recording of Handel's early opera with Il Pomo d'Oro, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart's La clemenza di Tito from Yannick Nézet-Séguin 13th July 2018Marina Rebeka and Joyce DiDonato strike sparks off one another as Vitellia and Sesto in a terrific new recording of Mozart's final opera, with Rolando Villazón as the idealistic emperor against whom they conspire.
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Recording of the Week,
John Nelson conducts Les Troyens 24th November 2017Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres triumph as the doomed lovers in Berlioz's Classical epic, recorded live in Strasbourg earlier this year.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on 'In War and Peace' 3rd November 2016The great American mezzo answers our questions, on camera, about her 'most personal project to date'.
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Video Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on 'In War and Peace' 3rd November 2016The great American mezzo answers our questions about her 'most personal project to date'.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato 5th September 2015The great American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new recital-disc with Tony Pappano from the Wigmore Hall.
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Recording of the Week,
Joyce DiDonato sings bel canto arias 25th August 2014Katherine listens to Joyce DiDonato's Stella di Napoli, which explores the Neapolitan school of bel canto opera arias.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on Maria Stuarda 13th May 2014Joyce DiDonato talks to Katherine about the challenges of bringing Donizetti's Stuart queen to life.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Ariodante 9th May 2011Joyce DiDonato sings the title-role on Alan Curtis’s recording of Handel’s Scottish opera, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the dastardly Polinesso and Karina Gauvin as the woman they both love.
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Recording of the Week,
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Joyce DiDonato 5th April 2010The American mezzo sings an astonishing Rosina from a wheelchair after breaking her ankle on the opening night of Covent Garden’s production, with Juan Diego Flórez as her suitor Count Almaviva and Pietro Spagnoli as the eponymous Spanish barber.