More By Artist: Joyce DiDonato
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HANDEL
Alcina (complete) Joyce DiDonato / Karina Gauvin / Laura Cherici / Maite Beaumont / Sonia Prina / Kobie van Rensburg / Vito Priante / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2009 ] "This Alcina is polished and passionate, the standard of da capo ornamentation unsurpassed. The acoustical environment of this recording is near-perfect." Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice (May 2009) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Amor E Gelosia: Handel Duets Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 7/Jun/2014 ] "All are most beautifully sung by Patrizia Ciofi and Joyce DiDonato, who has just the right firmness and focus for a castrato role; both phrase beautifully, articulate and express the words clearly and tellingly" (Gramophone Editor's Choice) |
HANDEL / CAVALLI / MONTEVERDI / STROZZI / LANDI / CARISSIMI
Handel: Arcadian Duets / Various: Lamenti Natalie Dessay, Veronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2018 ] "they relish the expressive potential of the amorous texts and Handel's piercing dissonances, abetted by the varied colours and light, springing rhythms of the continuo group.Handel-singing surely doesn't come much better than that." ***** BBC Music |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Karina Gauvin, Sabina Puertolas, Marie Nicole-Lemieux / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Erato Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 7/May/2021 ] |
DONIZETTI / BELLINI
Bel Canto Operas: Lucrezia Borgia / I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Complete operas recorded 2011/12) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Joyce DiDonato, Nicole Cabell / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Fleming seems fired by the theatricality of a reviled female character who commands every dramatic situation she encounters...DeShong is a powerful vocal and dramatic presence as Orsini" (Gramophone) |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (complet opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Olga Kulchynska, Benjamin Bernheim, Roberto Lorenzi / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres ever since the Renaissance. Vincenzo Bellini's much too rarely staged Romeo and Juliet opera, I... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini:Norma (complete opera recorded in 2017) Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Rose / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Erato DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Nov/2018 ] In the Met's 2017-18 season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera's most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini's Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacrifice on a funeral pyre. |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini:Norma (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Rose / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Erato Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Nov/2018 ] To open the Met's 2017-18 season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera's most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini's Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacrifice on a funeral... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Complete opera recorded in 2003) Gregory Kunde, Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Ciofi, Laurent Naouri / Orchestre Nationale de France. John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2018 ] 'A splendid achievement. Here indeed is the 'verve and vitality' Berlioz always believed he had found.' - Gramophone |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust Michael Spyres, Joyce DiDonato, Nicolas Courjal, Alexandre Duhamel / Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2019 ] "The most dramatic piece that Berlioz ever wrote," is how conductor John Nelson describes La Damnation de Faust. The composer designated this thrilling hybrid of oratorio and opera a 'légende dramatique'. Following in the triumphant footsteps of Les... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Stéphane Degout / Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson [ Erato Classics / 4 CD/DVD Box Set - released 15/Nov/2017 ] "Nelson drives the drama with unforced tempos but ample theatrical vitality and grandeur…Joyce DiDonato sings Dido with characteristic security and expressiveness." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2018 WINNER - Opera |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette / Cléopâtre Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Cyrille Dubois (ten), Christopher Maltman (bar) / Coro Gulbenkian, Chœur de l'OnR, Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "What makes Hector Berlioz such a great composer?", asks conductor John Nelson. "In one word, originality ... He broke all existing traditions of orchestration, structure, harmonic language and storytelling. Even today, his music is fresh, surprising... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / COLE PORTER / ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN / etc
The Best Of The John Wilson Orchestra The John Wilson Orchestra, with Kim Criswell, Louise Dearman, Joyce DiDonato, Anne-Jane Casey & others [ Warner classics / 2 CD - released 5/Dec/2018 ] The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra - a double-album celebrating a decade of BBC Proms performances with a selection of hit songs and music from Hollywood's greatest movie musicals. Featuring Seth MacFarlane, Curtis Stigers, Joyce DiDonato plus a... |
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (the complete opera, recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Eglise Gutierrez, Ewa Podles / Bertrand de Billy (conductor) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/May/2012 ] "Bertrand de Billy leads a highly sympathetic reading of the score...revelling in the pomposity of the court dances while conjuring magic in the duets." (International Record Review) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical 2013 Various Artists incls Joyce DiDonato, Simon Rattle, Philippe Jaroussky, Alison Balsom, Rolando Villazon and many others [ EMI / Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] With over 2.5 hours of classical favourites, this double album features the best and most popular names in classical music from the catalogues of both Virgin Classics and EMI Classics, including a number of brand new recordings by exciting young artists. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical Masterpieces [3 CD set] Alexandre Tharaud, Joyce DiDonato, Natalie Dessay, Martha Argerich, Philippe Jaroussky, George Li, Edgar Moreau, John Nelson, David Fray, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] A wealth of classical masterpieces … All-time favourites and tempting discoveries that span musical eras from the baroque right up to the present day … Moods that range from tranquil and reflective to fast and furious … |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Colbran, the Muse Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller [ Erato / Virgin Classical / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] "DiDonato is proving herself one of the most delightful artists of our time. She sings with a rare purity of tone, ease on the high Bs, an impressive degree of technical skill and lively powers of characterisation." Gramophone Awards 2010 WINNER -... |
JACK HEGGIE
Dead Man Walking (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Philip Cutlip, Frederica von Stade / Houston Grand Opera & Chorus, Patrick Summers [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "If the opera seemed good before, it's rather better now...DiDonato [comes to the vocal lines almost as heightened speech...[and] leaves no question that she'll get a confession out of the killer." (Gramophone) |
BERSTEIN / COPLAND / HEGGIE
The Deepest Desire Joyce DiDonato (sop) Francis Shelley (flute) David Zobel (piano) [ Eloquentia / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "the original settings for piano and flute blend and contrast magically with the timbre of DiDonato, who here confirms her ability to draw listeners into the heart of the most unfamiliar works." Opera |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2008) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside / Kyle Ketelsen / Miah Persson / Ramon Vargas / Joyce DiDonato / Charles Mackerras (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2009 ] G - "…as flames rage over the opening cast credits, Sir Charles Mackerras conducts an incandescent Overture which kindles the brilliance, clarity and indefatigable energy of his music direction throughout." (BBC Music) |
