“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

The world’s most influential classical recording review celebrates the movers and shakers
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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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