***** [...] 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.”

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*****”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.”

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2011 Gramophone Award Winner :
“Editor’s Choice”

“This is one of the great choral recordings.” ~ Gramophone
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Rossini’s Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Virgin Classics

BBC’S DVD Choice of the Month
A legendary production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville

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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 …

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Rossini: Colbran, the Muse
Virgin Classics

DISC OF THE MONTH (Opera, UK, February 2010)

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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

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Handel: Alcina
Alan Curtis / Il Complesso Barocco

*Editor’s Choice: September
Alan Curtis and his cast for Alcina, led by the brilliant Joyce DiDonato, bring such theatrical richness and linguistic precision to a new CD set it’s hard to believe this was a studio effort and not the culmination of a lengthy performance run.

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Furore
Christophe Rousset / Les Talens Lyriques

DISC OF THE MONTH
Joyce DiDonato is a mezzo who seemingly can do no wrong, an image she glowingly sustains with this superb Handel collection, her first solo disc.

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