Joyce DiDonato reviews
Schubert: Winterreise (DiDonato)
Joyce DiDonato (soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano) (Erato)
Handel: Agrippina
Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli, Elsa Benoit, Luca Pisaroni, Jakub Józef Orlinski, Andrea Mastroni, Carlo Vistoli, Biagio Pizzuti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux; Il P'omo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (Erato)
Joyce DiDonato's heart-breaking performance of Handel's Agrippina
‘Maxim Emelyanychev hits the sweet spot in his tempos, dynamics and realisations, the score aiming to mirror Handel’s lost original'
Bellini: Norma
Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Rose; Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Carlo Rizzi; dir. David McVicar (Erato; DVD)
Into the Fire
Joyce DiDonato; Brentano Quartet (Erato)
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Marina Rebeka, Regula Mühlemann, Tara Erraught, Adam Plachetka; RIAS Kammerchor; Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Chrorus and Orchestra of The Dallas Opera perform Heggie's Great Scott
Jake Heggie’s works are consistently successful with American audiences, and his opera Dead Man Walking, his first collaboration with playwright Terrence McNally, more widely so. At 56 Heggie is the most prominent opera composer on the US scene.