Im still here., With as full a diary as ever, DiDonato spends as much time as possible in Spain with her partner, a ballet dancer, and his two school-aged sons who I love to bits. [8] She gave a recital in San Francisco that year as part of the Schwabacher recital series. On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. 'Dressing up is part of what makes opera and classical music the highest artform' Joyce DiDonato. DiDonato isnt the only singer preoccupied with climate change. This is the best way to make discoveries and learn.. It is a clarion call to consider if our collective suffering and confusion isn't perhaps linked to . [citation needed], She became a part of Houston Grand Opera's young artist program in 1996; she sang there from autumn 1996 until spring 1998. 4pm - 7pm, Organ Concerto in F major HWV.295 (2) Symphony gets the new year off to a ravishing musical start, A garland of musical events chamber, orchestral, operatic and more coming in 2023, Pocket Opera's new leader has ambitious plans for upcoming season, Marin Symphony: Copland and Time For Three, Third Coast Percussion: Rituals and Meditations. Bill Clinton's minus the scandal. She is surrounded by a magnificent cast: Elsa Benoit is a naive but delightful Poppea . This business is pretty frenetic. They are participating, in some cases, truly, in an act of salvation theres my Catholic upbringing speaking. Contrasting Romantic-era songs that exalt nature and contemporary works that feel alienated from it, she charted an unfortunate decline in humanitys relationship with the environment through music. Fusing music, movement and theater, EDEN is an iconic, groundbreaking theatrical tour de force from Joyce DiDonato, arguably the world's top mezzo soprano. Terms & Conditions | Weve taken it across the world Istanbul, Moscow, Beijing just steps away from Tiananmen Square, Abu Dhabi in front of sheikhs and diplomats all with this identical message of peace. She will end the tour at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, in November. Will we answer the call? Its a theatrical narrative that Ive tried to bring a story to. As the orchestra lent Baroque jauntiness to Mysliveceks proto-Mozartean style, DiDonato channeled the texts threats of plagues, fire and bloodshed. JOYCE DIDONATO We always talk about the planet and nature as if we're apart from it. How did Handel know the human psyche so profoundly? Called Eden, the multifaceted project brings together music, drama, and education to explore how we personally connect to nature. One person, and there have been others, wrote to me: I was ready to take a handful of pills. DiDonatos voice was patchy in the long lines of Handels As with rosy steps the morn, from Theodora. The orchestra, seemingly overwhelmed by the stylistic pastiche, clumsily negotiated the dynamics of Mahlers soul-cracking Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.. John Torres, lighting designer, Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato presentsEden,a multi-faceted initiative embracing a global tour of over 45 venues across five continents, an album, ground-breaking education programmes and multiple partnerships, Eden explores our individual connection to nature and its impact on our world, Follow on:Follow on InstagramFollow on Twitter, Website by Lennys Studio |Privacy & Cookie Policy |Contact Joyce. As a coloratura mezzo (as opposed to a dramatic mezzo), many of DiDonatos discs revolve around Baroque and core Classical repertoire, such as works by Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.ukRossini wrote Semiramide in 1823, his last year in Italy before moving to Paris. Joyce DiDonato has made Agrippina, one of opera's more unscrupulous characters, her own, both on stage and now in the studio. In April 2012, she sang the title role in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the Houston Grand Opera,[15] repeating the role in the work's premiere performances at the Metropolitan Opera in January 2013. You do this to full capacity with the most joy you can. I don't obsess about it, but dressing up is part of what makes opera and classical music the highest artform. Watch Joyce DiDonato give a masterclass at the Royal Opera House. Some people do that, but a lot of people dont make that connection from the classical music world to how they wake up and go to the office the next morning, or how theyre interacting with their families or the world around them. How could I square this with the enormous fun, the selfishness, of performing? Shes a very talented artist and educator.. I thought mine was to teach. When youre done, walk away. Career: Performed in the world's major opera houses; won several awards, including a Grammy; her latest recording, ReJoyce, is out on Erato in September. Il Pomo dOro EDEN, winner of the 2022 Opus Klassic Award for Solo Vocal Recording of the Year, explores our individual connection to nature and its impact on our world. This co-production with Bavarian State Opera, Munich, and Dutch National Opera is conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev in his house debut. DiDonatos career was relatively slow to take off. But she has tried to make the whole thing seem as topical as possible, from the Hallmark card bearing A message to you, from Joyce inserted in every program, to asking how you personally find peace in the midst of chaos, to a final curtain speech before her last encore, Strausss bittersweet Morgen (Tomorrow). Still, the concept remained pretty abstract a conceit around which to group the arias in what was, at bottom, essentially a recital program with fancy makeup. The idea was to give a sense of timelessness, beginning with Ives The Unanswered Question and then letting one piece lead to another. [2] She is notable for her interpretations of operas and concert works in the 19th-century romantic era in addition to works by Handel and Mozart. The concert began to lose its plot, but as that happened, DiDonato became freer to entertain. A live recording was released in 2015 as Joyce and Tony: Live at Wigmore Hall, which won Best Classical Vocal Solo Album in the 2016 Grammy Award.[24]. In the spring of 2013, she starred in a new production of La donna del lago at the Royal Opera House. Q: How did you settle on these particular pieces to create the program? Eden picks up where DiDonato's last project In War and Peace left off, bringing together timeless opera arias, new contemporary works, poetry and drama with DiDonato's incredible voice and powerful stage presence in search of the restorative balance of nature.And she has the perfect partners to accompany her on this journey in Italian Baroque ensemble il Pomo d'Oro and Music Director . [34] The project, which lasted for three years, also toured to Russia, Asia, and South America; the 4 June 2017 performance at the Liceu was filmed and later released on DVD. If you can crack open a heart and I know this sounds a bit fluffy and make it harder for someone to go to bed at night and switch off, thats the power of music. He gives the opera a 20th-century setting, in which Semiramide rules an authoritarian state. She has performed with many of the world's leading opera companies and orchestras and in 2012 won a Grammy Aw read more View all tracks [9], DiDonato made her debut at La Scala as Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola in the 2000/01 season, returned to Houston Grand Opera as Dorabella in Cos fan tutte, and sang the mezzo-soprano solos in Bach Mass in B minor with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and conductor John Nelson. We said yes to the root city, because the more we can do the better, Boles said. Its hard to imagine what New Yorkers are supposed to do with the seeds of an eastern red cedar tree, given how narrow our window sills are, but they were slipped into the program books of Joyce DiDonatos concert at Carnegie Hall anyway. [3] She entered Wichita State University (WSU) in 1988 to study vocal music education, because she was initially more interested in teaching high school vocal music and musical theatre. Where I work, they're all scrambling to do that, but nobody's found the key. Instead of Handel's Berenice, we have Orlandini's Berenice, whose 'Da torbida procella' is an ideal fit for DiDonato's spitfire. So its not a sequel necessarily, but we did think about taking the formula and seeing what else could be said with it. Accessibility Info. She then carried out the five remaining performances in a wheelchair. A: It is similar, in that when we did In War and Peace we could feel that the audience was coming along with us. That season, she also sang the role of Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro with the Santa Fe Opera and the role of Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri with the New Israeli Opera. Im a musician, a performer, but Im a citizen. Its as if Ive returned to my Kansas roots. Does she listen to music off duty? And Joyce DiDonatos In War & Peace: Harmony Through Music, created in 2016, finally made it to the Kennedy Centers Eisenhower Theater on Friday and Saturday nights, courtesy of Rene Flemings Voices series. (1) She's appearing in Rossini's La Donna del Lago at the Santa Fe Opera House in New Mexico until 19 August. Joyce Didonato has a raft of fine recordings to her name, with her recent release of Les Troyens (which won an International Opera Award in the Recording category), and the Grammy Award-winning discs Diva, Divo and Joyce & Tony Live From Wigmore Hall, being among those that really stand out. The albums track list, echoed in the lineup at Carnegie, teleports listeners among different eras touching on Ives, Mahler, Handel, Cavalli and Gluck but never really recovers its pace after a detour to a pre-Romantic age. Contemporary visual art. Choral music. Q: Ive listened to Eden with great delight, and Ive read descriptions of the recital from other cities. She appeared in several concerts with the New York Philharmonic and gave a recital at Wigmore Hall. DiDonato will perform Eden on Wednesday at La Jolla Music Societys Baker-Baum Concert Hall. non son io che parlo, an aria barely related to the evenings themes, she tapped into an impressive chest voice and negotiated the arias leaps with full-throated relish. Joyce DiDonato could offer her audiences a traditional recital program if she wanted to, and they would eat it up. I walk in and go: "What's that about?". This music is a gift, and in the context of Eden, I do believe people can have a transformative experience of deep connection., Where: Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla. But the important fact is that the music is not in a consecutive chronology. To ensure that the EDEN experience continues to grow outside of the concert hall, each audience member receives seeds to plant as Joyce asks: In this time of upheaval, which seed will you plant today?. I just turned 50, I feel great. She gave recitals at La Scala, Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed a special concert of Handel arias which was recorded in Brussels. Maxim Emelyanychev of Il Pomo dOro arranged Question and several other pieces in the program to accommodate chamber-orchestra versions. They dont tend to get fan letters. Targets move. The problem with putting on your own show (along with the evenings director, Ralf Pleger) is that keeping up the interest rests entirely on your shoulders. [21], She performed in Rossini's La Cenerentola, as the title role at the Metropolitan Opera in April and May. Growing up, the predominant topic around my familys dining table was Vocation. Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep. 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