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 / […]
Joyce DiDonato
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
