I don’t usually attend a performance of an opera I’ve known well most of my life expecting a revelation, but exactly that happened Sunday afternoon at The English Concert’s presentation of Handel’s Ariodante conducted by Harry Bicket and starring a sovereign Joyce DiDonato in the title role. Read more »
The Bayerische Staatsoper just announced, in addition to their usual bounty of webcasts, two special presentations: a repeat of Semiramide and a live telecast of Andrea Chenier. Read more »
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents Don Giovanni, conducted and directed by Iván Fischer. Opera News calls it “a lively, giocoso take on the opera…provocative.” First performed to sold-out houses at Mostly Mozart in 2011, this can’t-miss staged concert of Mozart’s opera overflows with musical revelations and dramatic innovation. “I have seldom seen this climactic moment staged to such haunting effect,” wrote the New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini. Featuring the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Christopher Maltman, Laura Aikin, and Lucy Crowe. Performances are August 17th, 19th, and 20th at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Read more »
Watch and discuss, cher public, as the Bayerische Staatsoper streams a new production of Rossini’s Semiramide boasting a starry cast including Joyce DiDonato, Alex Esposito, Daniela Barcellona and Lawrence Brownlee. Semiramide, which begins at 11:00 AM ET, is directed by David Alden and the conductor is Michele Mariotti.
Joyce DiDonato’s atest album, In War & Peace: Harmony through music, is more specific than it sounds.
“Grammy Award winner and international opera star Joyce DiDonato will perform on October 3 in White Rabbit Red Rabbit.”
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala promises (note, promises) a particularly glittery roster this year.
“The Met also said a new production of Bellini’s Norma with Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato will open the 2017-18 season.”
La Cieca finds it difficult to imagine any more offbeat casting than the sublime Joyce DiDonato as “The Worst Singer in the World.”
The sound of Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and John Osborn nailing La Donna del Lago’s thrilling second-act trio alone made worthwhile enduring one of the ugliest, most bone-headed productions seen at the Metropolitan Opera in many a year.
“Joyce DiDonato and Rufus Wainwright will discuss a variety of topics…”