Ode to Joyce

435 South Magazine
by Alex Hoffman
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Prairie Village’s own Joyce DiDonato returns home to sing with the Kansas City Symphony this month.

No offense to the Prince-penned Sheila E tune from her teenage days, but Joyce DiDonato really is leading the glamorous life as one of the world’s finest mezzo-sopranos.

Non ho paura di volare

musica 234 | di Stephen Hastings
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Joyce DiDonato alla ricerca della verità

Per chiunque avesse la sensibilità per comprenderla, l’Elena interpretata da Joyce DiDonato, nelle recite della Donna del lago alla Scala lo scorso novembre è stata un esempio paradigmatico di creatività musicale che si trasforma subito in drammaturgia.

Dream Girl. The Sweet Voice of Reason

Opera News | by Brian Kellow
Joyce DiDonato — probably the most in-demand lyric-coloratura mezzo in the world — has become a star by playing up, not down, to her audiences. She tells BRIAN KELLOW how proud she is of opera — and how proud she is to be an opera singer.

Il Mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato

Corriere della Sera | by Valeria Crippa
“Con il make-up giusto ho una doppia identità. Ma soltanto in scena”. L’interprete della “Donna del Lago” alla Scala e la “strategie” per cambiare volto e sesso sul palco.

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Backstage Blogging

Keen to bring the classical music world closer to her fans, mezzo-soprano and keen writer and photographer Joyce DiDonato has become opera’s most avid ‘blogger’, as Sarah Kirkup discovers.

Joyce DiDonato breaks the opera diva mold

Los Angeles Times | Lively and engaging (she writes her own blog), the mezzo-soprano from Kansas City is a breed apart from the untouchable singers of years past. By James C. Taylor.

Joyce DiDonato

Opera News | by OUSSAMA ZAHR

Mezzo Joyce DiDonato sets the standard for Rossini singing today. But that may not have been obvious at the beginning of her career. I’m thinking of her performance as Rosina in an atrocious, Mideast-inspired, seraglio-style staging of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Paris Opera in 2002.

SFist Interviews Joyce DiDonato

SFist | Mezzo-soprano diva Joyce DiDonato last seduced us here as Octavian in Strauss’s Rosenkavalier and is returning on Monday night for her first ever San Francisco Performances recital, with pianist John Churchwell.

Learning to Enjoy Life on the A List

New York Times | By KATRINE AMES
DESPITE her best efforts — and she almost certainly sang “Hopelessly Devoted to You” better than any other fourth grader in Prairie Village, Kan. — Joyce Flaherty did not grow up to be a pop star. In college she ached to be the world’s coolest high school music teacher: another dream gone bust. Instead, she became what even she could hardly have imagined a decade ago: Joyce DiDonato, gilt-edged opera star.