Écho

El-Khoury is never less than stylish with precisely the vocal agility that this repertoire requires. So there’s nimble and accurate coloratura and a full complement of brightly burnished top... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2017
Catalogue No: ORR252
Label: Opera Rara
Length: 79 minutes

The Times Records of the Year

2017
International Opera Awards

2018

Nominated - Solo Recital
Opera

October 2017

Recording of the Month
Gramophone Awards

2018

Shortlisted - Recital

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Excerpt, Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Scena e Cavatina ‘Regnava nel silenzio’

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Excerpt, Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Cavatine ‘Robert, toi que j’aime’

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Excerpt, Weber: Der Freischütz

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Scène et Air ‘Hélas! sans le revoir’

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Excerpt, Rossini: Guillaume Tell

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Récitatif et Romance ‘Ils s’éloignent enfin'

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Excerpt, Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Romance ‘Va, dit-elle, va, mon enfant’

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Excerpt, Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

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Michael Spyres, Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Scena e Duetto Finale ‘Lucia, perdona...’

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Excerpt, Hérold: Le Pré Aux Clercs

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Entr’acte et Air ‘Jours de mon enfance’

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Excerpt, Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Couplets ‘Quand je quittai la Normandie’

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Excerpt, Halévy: La Juive

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Air ‘Assez longtemps la crainte et la tristesse’

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Excerpt, Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

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Joyce El-Khoury
Hallé Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi

Récitatif et Air ‘Les belles fleurs’

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Interview, Joyce El-Khoury on Écho

28th August 2017

The Lebanese-Canadian soprano talks to Katherine about her tribute to the French singer Julie Dorus-Gras, out next week on Opera Rara.

Born in the Lebanon and brought up in Canada, Joyce El-Khoury studied in Ottawa and Philadelphia, before graduating from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development programme. Today she is one of the brightest young stars in the opera world, recently receiving universal acclaim for her landmark performance of Violetta in La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As well as singing extensively in America, she appears widely in opera and concert throughout Europe, including the Bayerishe Staatsoper. She returns to Covent Garden in 2018, but before then will star in Glyndebourne and Madrid, as well as singing extensively in concert.

Joyce has starred in two Opera Rara recordings to date: Donizetti's Belisario and the award-winning recording of Les Martyrs. Joyce's album Écho features music associated with the great 19th century soprano Julie Dorus-Gras, including arias by Berlioz, Donizetti, Meyerbeer and Weber. She also duets with her co-star from Les Martyrs, Michael Spyres, whose own recital disc is also released in September 2017, and is available from Opera Rara exclusively from 14th July 2017.

Reviews

November 2017

El-Khoury is never less than stylish with precisely the vocal agility that this repertoire requires. So there’s nimble and accurate coloratura and a full complement of brightly burnished top notes…the vocal fireworks at the top of the voice are supported by a velvety middle range….She is splendidly supported by The Hallé on their very best behaviour for Carlo Rizzi.

October 2017

She is particularly suited to the gentle Alice, whose ‘Va, dit-elle’ anticipates Micaëla’s ‘Et tu lui diras’ in Carmen by more than 40 years. Mathilde’s air from Guillaume Tell is just as simple and unaffected. El-Khoury catches Agathe’s tenderness in ‘Ma prière’ from Le Freyschutz and phrases ‘I miei sospiri’ in Lucia to perfection…Rizzi and the Hallé provide lively accompaniments, with some fine solos.

September 2017

Musical history aside, these discs deserve a place on the shelves due to the extremely high quality of singing...El-Khoury supplies firm, sensitively coloured tone and technical finish in everything she does...she is nigh-on technically immaculate as well as remarkably eloquent...Rizzi conducts with a blend of security and stylistic authority, while the Hallé plays wonderfully for him.

17th September 2017

El-Khoury is especially lovely in her limpid account of Lucia’s Fountain aria, the rare Berlioz transcription of Agathe’s aria from Weber’s Der Freischütz, and arias for both heroines, Alice and Isabelle, from Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable,

Opera Now October 2017

El- Khoury has a fascinating voice of myriad colours.

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Interview, Joyce El-Khoury on Écho