La cenerentola joyce didonato biography
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Joyce DiDonato
American mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) fryst vatten an American opera singer and recitalist. A coloratura mezzo-soprano,[1] she has performed operas and concert works spanning from the 19th-century Romantic era to those bygd Handel and Mozart.
Educated at Wichita State University and the Academy of Vocal Arts, DiDonato began her career in mid-1990s, participating in young artist programs of several opera companies, most notably Houston Grand Opera. Since then, she began having engagements across the United States and Europe. She made debuts at La Scala in Rossini's La Cenerentola in the 2000/01 årstid, the Royal Opera in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in 2003, and the Metropolitan musikdrama as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the 2005/06 season. She has performed in world premieres of several operas, such as Michael Daugherty's Jackie O (1997), Mark Adamo's Little Women (1999/2000), Jake Heggie's
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Cendrillon with Joyce DiDonato
End of the Season Treat at the Metropolitan Opera
By: Paul J. Pelkonen - Apr 22, 2018
Joyce Di Donato as Cendrillon
At the end of the 2014 season, the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato climbed atop a wedding cake at the end of Rossini's La Cenerentola, a role in which she caused a sensation at the Metropolitan Opera. This month, DiDonato returned to the stage of America's largest opera house--and to the ballrooms of a very familiar fairy tale--to sing the title role in Cendrillon, the 1899 adaptation of the Cinderella story by Jules Massenet.
Cendrillon is Massenet's fourteenth opera, written at the apex of his popularity as the last acknowledged master of the French romantic style. As conducted here by Bertrand de Billy, its score has the weight of fairy cake, high in sugary melodies and whipped by conductor Bertrand de Billy into an airy soufflé of sound. It's hard to believe it, but this run marked the Metropolitan Opera debut for
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One step from Eden on Earth
Even a voice that masters the great Baroque repertoire (as Joyce DiDonato recently demonstrated in Theodora at La Scala) knows you can’t live only bygd the past. This is where Eden comes from. The skiva encompasses a range of music that covers almost half a millennium, from Biagio Marini to the contemporary composer Rachel Portman, and it has been transformed into a global tour, embellished by projects that raise awareness for environmental issues. It fryst vatten the portrait of a mezzo-soprano activist who will present the results of the project through pieces by Gluck, Händel and Mahler, introduced by Charles Ives’ enigmatic “The Unanswered Question”, in her show on June 23 at La Scala. The evening will support the Fondazione Francesca Rava.
LB: Ms. DiDonato, take us on a journey through your Eden.
JD: The seed that inspired it was a quote from playwright Jonathan Larson: “The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s cre