The Met: Live at Home – new streaming platform makes opera simulcasts available at home
‘The Met: Live at Home’ is a new streaming platform for those who do not have access to participating cinemas for the Met’s Live in HD transmissions.
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Joyce DiDonato’s new album EDEN is released
EDEN is Joyce DiDonato’s latest initiative combining a recording, an extensive tour, and an education programme to question our connection with nature.
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The Royal Opera House: opera, ballet, cinema in 2022
The Royal Opera House in 2022 – opera, ballet, cinema. Covent Garden continues its first full season since 2019.
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Handel’s Theodora at La Scala – ovations for Oropesa, DiDonato and company
A glorious performance of Handel’s Theodora with Emelyanychev conducting Il Pomo d’Oro with Oropesa, DiDonato, Spyres, Chest and Bénos-Djian.
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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 opera season
The Royal Opera House announces its 2021/22 Season, the first full Season since 2019, opening on Monday 13 September.
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‘Marguerite and Armand’ and ‘Cendrillon’ in streaming from Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House will be streaming the Ashton ballet Marguerite and Armand and the opera Cendrillon continuing its #OurHouseToYourHouse programming.
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2021 GRAMMYs postponed to Sunday 14 March 2021
The Grammy Award Ceremony, scheduled for 31 January 2021 on CBS, has been postponed.
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Lawrence Brownlee answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition!
Q&A When and why did you start singing? When I was a kid… I come from a musical family, and so music has always been a part of who I am. But I got serious about singing in high school when people told me girls would think I was cute. So my love for singing…
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Daniela Barcellona collects Olivier Awards for Semiramide
Daniela Barcellona and Joyce DiDonato have won Olivier Awards for Best Achievement in Opera for their roles in The Royal Opera House‘s production of Semiramide. Semiramide was also the winner of Best New Opera Production at the annual award ceremony, this year held at the Royal Albert Hall. Barcellona accepted both of the awards on behalf of…
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Interview with John Nelson, conductor of the new recording of Berlioz’s Les Troyens
An admiring review in the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of a production of Les Troyens, conducted by John Nelson, earlier this year, said, At present there are few conductors who, like John Nelson, can rightly be called ‘Berlioz experts’. In an interview more than 20 years ago, Nelson called Berlioz his ‘patron saint in music’….
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Enzo Dara – tributes from his colleagues and friends: “What joy he brought to us all”
Some of Enzo Dara’s colleagues have written tributes and recollections of the great basso buffo, who died after a long illness on 25 August 2017. Teatro alla Scala left a declaration: Enzo Dara has for decades been the basso buffo par excellence, offering the Rossini revival, as well as the Donizetti operas, performances infused with…
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Riccardo Muti, Joyce DiDonato and Eric Owens perform for Chicago’s young offenders
On Sept 25 #MaestroMuti visited the Illinois Youth Center in Chicago to share classical music with the young men. pic.twitter.com/w6qqxZ59Sz — Chicago Symphony (@chicagosymphony) September 29, 2016 Riccardo Muti, Joyce DiDonato and Eric Owens, together with musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, gave a concert at Illinois Youth Center-Chicago last Sunday. For Muti it was his second time at the facility…
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Joyce DiDonato reveals her Desert Island Discs
Music runs to the very core of mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato, guest on yesterday’s BBC Radio 4’s long-running and beautifully judged programme, Desert Island Discs. Even if she is tired before a show, everything changes when the music starts… “This business feeds me”. Her first disc to take to the desert island is to make her feel good:…
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Joyce DiDonato joins opera singers from 70 years of Desert Island Discs
As a committed fan of BBC 4’s Desert Island Discs, I am delighted that Joyce DiDonato will be revealing her list of eight recordings, a book and a luxury item that she would take if she was to be cast away on a desert island. Of course, it’s the chat between the music that is the captivating aspect…
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New York Opera Fest offers the city two months of opera
The inaugural New York Opera Fest kicks off today, 1 May, and it’s kicking off in a big way with an ambitious two months of programming. Among events this evening is Bronx Opera‘s production of Rossini‘s Cinderella at The Lovinger Theatre. Bronx Opera is one of the senior companies taking part – next year it…
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Frederica von Stade answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? Maybe at 5. Why did you start singing? I always loved to sing anywhere, anytime. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Gwen Verdon, Julie Andrews. Which singer do you most admire? It’s hard to choose… favourites are Janet Baker, Susan Graham, Richard Stilwell, Joyce DiDonato, Kiri…
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Win one of five signed copies of Joyce DiDonato’s new double-cd ‘Joyce and Tony’
Joyce DiDonato‘s new album is launched today in North America and Warner Music is giving readers of this blog the opportunity to win one of five signed copies. To open the Wigmore Hall season last year, DiDonato teamed up with Antonio Pappano on the piano, and gave two recitals, which were recorded, and the result is the double-cd Joyce…
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The Royal Opera and Ballet in Cinema 2015-2016
Romeo and Juliet, 22 September at 7.15pm The Royal Ballet By Kenneth MacMillan Music: Sergey Prokofiev Le nozze di Figaro, 5 October at 6.45pm The Royal Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dir: David McVicar Cond: Ivor Bolton Cast includes Erwin Schrott and Anita Hartig Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux /…
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Joyce DiDonato and other winners of the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015
Joyce DiDonato is this year’s winner in the Vocal category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards. This is the tenth edition of the awards which are voted for by readers of BBC Music Magazine and classical music lovers around the world. DiDonato won for her album Stella di Napoli. The Magazine’s five-sate review stated, Joyce DiDonato‘s love letter…
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Joyce DiDonato sings Purcell at Stonewall
Joyce DiDonato has paid tribute to victims of intolerance and injustice in an NPR Music “Field Recording” video, released today at npr.org. In the video, DiDonato performs Purcell’s When I Am Laid In Earth at the Greenwich Village gay bar The Stonewall Inn. Stonewall became a household name after the police raided it on 28 June 1969 sparking…
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Ian Bostridge at La Scala: a great artist with a strange manner
Ian Bostridge‘s lieder programme at La Scala went down extremely well, though interval chat revealed that many were confused by his apparent dislike of the audience. His lack of communication facially was certainly compensated for vocally, but apart from an attempted smile a few minutes before the end of his recital, Bostridge gave the impression that the…
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Joyce DiDonato sings national anthem at baseball World Series game
Joyce DiDonato will sing the national anthem tonight at Game 7 of the baseball World Series, in her hometown of Kansas City. DiDonato – a lifelong Kansas City Royals fan – was selected after a fan started a social media campaign based around the hashtag #letjoycesing. The campaign quickly became viral, resulting in a Change.org…
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Joyce DiDonato news: from Andy Warhol to the World Series
Warner Classics have put together a six-minute highlights video of Joyce DiDonato‘s Stella di Napoli album launch concert at the Gowanus Ballroom above the Serett Metalworks factory in Brooklyn. DiDonato in her sequined ruby gown and flashy new hair-do remarks about the atmosphere of the place, so different to the Wigmore Hall: It reminds me…
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Joyce DiDonato sings her latest album live in streaming tonight!
Tonight, Friday 3 October, Joyce DiDonato will perform the music from her new album Stella di Napoli at the Gowanus Ballroom, a warehouse performance art space in Brooklyn, located above Serett Metal Works. The intimate event is co-hosted by Warner Classics/Erato and LoftOpera. It will take the Yankee Diva and her album’s of 19th century Bel…
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The Stella of Kansas goes to Naples: Joyce DiDonato’s latest album
Joyce DiDonato‘s new album, Stella di Napoli, is out in September and “ventures far off the beaten bel canto track”, says her Erato label. Graciously, Cecilia Bartoli is nominated because, as everyone knows, she has been wandering far from the traditional mezzo career path for years. Italian conductor Riccardo Minasi, who collaborated with Bartoli when…
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Joyce DiDonato dedicates Last Night of the Proms performance to Russian gays
Joyce DiDonato has always been fearlessly honest, or at least, has the courage to be honest, though it may cost her a great deal emotionally to get over her fear. I don’t know, but I do know that her bravery has helped, and is helping, many young people. Recently she talked to The Telegraph’s Rupert…
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Cecilia Bartoli: the generous mezzo makes the front page
Cecilia Bartoli, basking in the glory of her successful series of Normas in Salzburg, yesterday become the cover girl of the French newspaper Libération. The centre-left paper, founded by Jean-Paul Satre in the 1970s, has never had an opera singer on the front page, at least, not a living one. A photo of Bartoli was…
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Joyce DiDonato dedicates her performance to gay suicide teen Carlos
Tonight I would like to dedicate my performance of La donna del lago to the memory of Carlos Vigil – a New Mexican teen who committed suicide after being mercilessly bullied throughout school. His suicide note is beyond tragic. But I would also like to dedicate it to every single child who bullied him along the way,…
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Joyce DiDonato answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? I can’t ever remember I time when I didn’t sing. Why did you start singing? I can’t remember the first “why” but there exists now a definite need to do it. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Barbra Streisand. Which singer do you most admire? Ella…
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Joyce DiDonato’s recital interrupted by a call from Rossini
Joyce DiDonato well and truly conquered La Scala‘s audience during her recital last night. She was greeted by an ovation that took her aback – the sort of applause reserved for a Marilyn Horne or Teresa Berganza, recognising their past triumphs on the legendary stage. In this case is was more of a signal to…
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