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Joyce DiDonato & Joelle Harvey Lead Kansas City Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

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The Kansas City Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season. For the purpose of this article, we will only focus on vocal performances. Eduardo Strauser conducts Verdi and Schumann with the Kansas City Chorus. Performance Dates: Nov 17-19, 2023 Michael Stern conducts Joyce DiDonato in a program that includes Chen Yi, Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, Joel Thompson, and Johann Strauss {…}

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iSing Silicon Valley Continues 10th Anniversary Season with Workshops by Joyce DiDonato, Concerts, Coaching, and an Album Pre-Release Party

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This winter, iSing Silicon Valley continues its 10th-anniversary season by partnering with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato for workshops and an Eden project concert presented by Stanford Live at Bing Concert Hall on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. Eighty-seven elementary school students from iSing Harmonics Chorus and iSing@RWC, a neighborhood chorus for Redwood City Title 1 females, will perform “Seeds of Hope” with {…}

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Joyce DiDonato to Headline World Premiere of Tod Machover’s ‘Overstory Overture’

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Tod Machover’s “Overstory Overture” gets its world premiere on March 7, 2023, at Alice Tully Hall, New York City. The opera, which will feature mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, was commissioned by Sejong Soloists and will be conducted by Earl Lee. The work is based on Richard Power’s Pulitzer-winning novel “The Overstory.” ‘For me, no book has spoken more eloquently and passionately {…}

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Master At Work – Watching Joyce DiDonato Help Young Artists During Master Classes

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(Photo Credit: Chris Lee) December 11, 2022, saw acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato return to Carnegie Hall for a series of master classes with five emerging artists. Over the following three days, DiDonato and students worked on a variety of musical and dramatic techniques catered to each artist’s particular strengths and current place in their career, giving the audience an intimate {…}

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Joyce DiDonato Opens Second Leg of ‘EDEN’ Tour at The Conrad in La Jolla

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Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will return to the stage for the second part of her international “EDEN” tour at the Conrad in La Jolla. DiDonato’s concept album “EDEN” is a 2023 GRAMMY™ Nominee for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. It fuses four centuries of music including a new piece by Academy Award-Winning composer Rachel Portman, movement, and theater. EDEN explores the {…}

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Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Renée Fleming & Joyce DiDonato Lead Classical Grammy Nominations

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The Grammy Awards have announced their nominations for 2023 with the Metropolitan Opera leading the field in the classical categories. In the Best Opera Recording category Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” was nominated alongside Terrence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut up in my Bones” and Anthony Davis’ “X – The Life And Times Of Malcolm X” “Eurydice” features Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Barry Banks, Nathan Berg, {…}

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Joyce DiDonato to Return to Carnegie Hall for Three-Day Master Class Series

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On December 11, 2022, renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for a three-day series of master classes with some of opera’s rising young stars. Collaborative pianists Justina Lee and Ken Noda will accompany soprano Anchal Indu Dhir and Marissa Moultrie, mezzo Rael Rent, tenor Lawrence Barasa, and baritone Łukasz Zientarski. The program includes additional {…}

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Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara & Joyce DiDonato Headline ‘The Hours’ at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to present the world-premiere staging of composer Kevin Puts’s “The Hours.” The opera, which is set to be presented between Nov. 22 and Dec. 15, is adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. The work will see the return of Renée Fleming, who has not performed with the company since 2017, in the role of Clarissa {…}