Musical America, now in its third century as the indispensable resource for the performing arts, today announced the winners of the annual Musical America Awards, recognizing artistic excellence and achievement in the arts and named Joyce DiDonato as the 2013 VOCALIST OF THE YEAR.  She joins Gustavo Dudamel as Musician of the year, David Lang as Composer of the year, and Dudamel’s mentor, José Antonio Abreu, as Educator of the year.

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Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell are setting the operatic world on fire with their vocal splendor as Romeo and Giulietta on stage at the San Francisco Opera:

“Joyce DiDonato and soprano Nicole Cabell will astonish you as Romeo and Juliet” ~ Mercury News

” … their voices blending almost as magically as the fabled duo of Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne.” ~ SF Classical Voice Read more …

“AN EXQUISITE RECITAL WITHOUT ANY CONCESSIONS”

~ Mundo Classico

DiDonato, alongside her long-time accompanist, David Zobel, traveled to South America for the first time, giving six concerts spanning four cities: Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

In wide-ranging repertoire that included selections from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini, to Obradors and Hahn, DiDonato took the critics by storm:  Read more …

John Wilson & The John Wilson Orchestra present their upcoming album Rogers & Hammerstein At The movies, available from October 23.

The album showcases stunning new recordings of the ground-breaking film scores of Rogers & Hammerstein. Featuring performances from soloists Sierra Boggess, Anna-Jane Casey, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Ewing, Julian Ovenden, David Pittsinger and the Maida Vale Singers.

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Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony Presents Joyce DiDonato will air in Kansas City on Friday, July 20 at 9pm on KCPT Channel 19.

Kansas City’s extraordinary new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts provides the stunning backdrop for a performance/documentary profiling the Grammy Award-winning musicians of the Kansas City Symphony, their artistic director and conductor Michael Stern, and internationally celebrated and fellow Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Follow as Joyce finishes up a run at the Metropolitan Opera and returns home to help celebrate her town’s glorious new Symphony Hall.

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Joyce DiDonato makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall at the beginning of July for two sold-out recitals, as she celebrates her love of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto through a programme themed around another of her passions, Venice. In conjunction, she is auctioning off five photographs depicting various scenes from this beloved city, each corresponding to a song from the recital program.

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GRAMOPHONE LAUNCHES ITS INAUGURAL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Conductors Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Leonard Bernstein
and soprano Maria Callas head the list

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For her first performance in the Kauffman Center, vocalist Joyce DiDonato will evoke Joan of Arc and Sister Helen Prejean.

Joyce DiDonato is soaring.

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It is with great regret that Joyce DiDonato must cancel her upcoming tour of Ariodante with her long time collaborator, Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, March 4 – 17.  Due to a minor, but necessary medical reason, she is following her Doctor’s orders to cancel the European travel and tour.  Joyce looks forward to returning to the stage later in March in a series of concerts with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and thank her fans for their understanding in making this very difficult decision.

At the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards last night, EMI/Virgin Classics exclusive artist Joyce DiDonato won in the Classical Vocal Solo category for her album Diva Divo.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Kansas City-born mezzo-soprano became the first ever classical singer to perform at the GRAMMYs® with a rousing rendition of Rossini’s “Non più mesta” from Diva, Divo which brought the audience to its feet in a standing ovation.

“Thank you for letting an opera girl come into this,” Joyce said in her acceptance speech. She also rallied the crowd by urging people to support arts education, saying how “there’s a war on in our country against the arts right now…we need more musicians in our lives.”

Diva, Divo is an album which celebrates the rich variety of the mezzo-soprano voice, including a selection of arias for both male and female characters which perfectly showcase DiDonato’s extraordinary instrument.