Handel’s biting Agrippina finally arrived at the Metropolitan Opera Thursday evening 310 years after its Venetian premiere.
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
Joyce DiDonato’s take on Winterreise is a conceptual misstep that, song after song, frustratingly dilutes and distracts from an often rewarding musical performance.
By David Fox
Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, always with a gift for gab, is ever more loquacious in concerts, often talking directly to the audience.
By David Fox
High concept! Joyce DiDonato is Mrs. Roper!
By La Cieca
The Met Live in 2018-2020 HD series (including Joyce DiDonato‘s role debut as Carlotta Campion) is now on sale.
By La Cieca
“Semiramide—a better opera than this dude expected!”
By Jon Taylor
Bellini’s Norma Monday evening didn’t at all improve on the production it was replacing.
I don’t usually attend a performance of an opera I’ve known well most of my life expecting a revelation.
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.
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
Joyce DiDonato’s atest album, In War & Peace: Harmony through music, is more specific than it sounds.
By Ali Kashani
“Grammy Award winner and international opera star Joyce DiDonato will perform on October 3 in White Rabbit Red Rabbit.”
By La Cieca
“The Met also said a new production of Bellini’s Norma with Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato will open the 2017-18 season.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca finds it difficult to imagine any more offbeat casting than the sublime Joyce DiDonato as “The Worst Singer in the World.”
By La Cieca
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…”
By La Cieca
Exclusively for you, the loyal parterriani, here’s a sneak preview video from Joyce and Tony: Live at Wigmore Hall.
By La Cieca
“It was the chilliest opening night at the Met in years on Monday—barely 15 degrees when the curtain went up on the company premiere of La Donna del Lago.“
By La Cieca
Ellen Douglas finds herself in Act II of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago in the far from unusual operatic position of having her love claimed by two impassioned tenors in the bel canto version of a macho drag race.
By John Yohalem
The key to enjoying Bellini’s I Capuleti e Montechi is to do a hard factory reset and reformat your brain to forget all other works based on Romeo and Juliet.
By Poison Ivy
A young friend messaged me to ask if I knew Rossini’s Macbeth.
By John Yohalem
Finally the mystery has been solved: glamorous Joyce DiDonato and mousy Rachel DiDonato (pictured, left to right) are really the same person!
By La Cieca
Sunday afternoon’s intermittently involving concert performance of Handel’s Alcina at Carnegie Hall starred an unusually intense Joyce DiDonato as a powerful sorceress blinded by her romantic delusions.
