Drama Queens
BEST DISC OF THE YEAR 2012:
Osnabrücker Zeitung: “Der Gänsehaut-Effekt ist garantiert.”
Chicago Tribune
Star Ledger: “She needs no sets or costumes”
The New Yorker
Time Out NY: “Fiercely Passionate”
WFMT Chicago
WXQR NY: “How blessed we are to be living in the age of DiDonato” Read more …
Don Giovanni
“Best are the “Donnas”, the finest pairing since Sutherland and Schwarzkopf. [...] if there is a greater Elvira on disc than Joyce DiDonato, I’d love to hear her.
Ariodante
***** [...] But the singing is the glory of the set: Joyce DiDonato confirms her reputation as the finest Handelian mezzo-soprano of the day with a magnificent princely reading of the title role.”
Diva ~ Divo
*****”For sheer beauty of tone, legato that defies gravity and singing that restores your faith in human nature, listen last of all to what [she] does with Berlioz’s ‘D’amour l’ardente flame’. Diva or Divo, this is the real thing.”
Rossini’s Stabat Mater
2011 Gramophone Award Winner :
“Editor’s Choice”
“This is one of the great choral recordings.” ~ Gramophone
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Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Rossini’s Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Virgin Classics
BBC’S DVD Choice of the Month
A legendary production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville
La Cenerentola
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Decca
The wild, pop-up-book setting inspires deeply realistic and touching interpretations from the cast, led by superstar tenor Juan Diego Flórez and American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in signature roles …
Don Giovanni
Mozart: Don Giovanni
BBC / Opus Arte
And the singing is almost universally fine. If one of the cast is to be named above the rest, that should be Joyce DiDonato, an outstandingly accomplished Elvira, brilliantly projected, interestingly conceived, her singing concentrated in tone. – Gramophone, July 2009
Yankeediva
Video
Una voce poco fa from Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia". Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala, 2007.
Recordings
Listen to excerpts from "Colbran, the Muse" and "Handel: Furore"
Both available on Virgin Classics.
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