Joyce
DiDonato
mezzo-soprano
2000 - ARIA AWARD Winner
"a singer of considerable accomplishment
and even greater promise..."
"a Rossini mezzo for the next generation"
and more...
ARIA Winners
SOPRANO:
ANNA CHRISTY
NICOLLE FOLAND
CHRISTINE GOERKE
NICOLE HEASTON
EMILY PULLEY
JULIANA RAMBALDI
CELENA SHAFER
ERIN WALL
JENNIFER WELCH-BABIDGE
MEZZO-SOPRANO:
STEPHANIE BLYTHE
MICHELLE DEYOUNG
JOYCE DIDONATO
VIVICA GENAUX
JILL GROVE
PATRICIA RISLEY
MALE SOPRANO:
MICHAEL MANIACI
COUNTER-TENOR:
DAVID WALKER
TENOR:
LAWRENCE BROWNLEE
ERIC CUTLER
JORGE GARZA
BRANDON JOVANOVICH
NORMAN SHANKLE
GREGORY TURAY
JON VILLARS
BARITONE:
NATHAN GUNN
FRANK HERNANDEZ
MEL ULRICH
BASS-BARITONE:
JOHN RELYEA
BASS:
OREN GRADUS
ERIC OWENS
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2007
Winner of 2nd BEVERLY
SILLS AWARD
2003 Recipient of New York City Opera's Richard Gold Debut Award
2002 Awardee of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation
Indeed, she can shift from Rossini's bravura
arias to Schubert's pensive lieder in one evening without missing
a beat, as she did at her 1998 Schwabacher debut recital in San Francisco.
She "simply stood there - then opened her mouth and, seemingly without
preparation, began to spin out a golden, utterly perfect melodic line.
For those few minutes, time seemed to stop," raved the SF Chronicle
music critic.
From the beginning of her career, this young mezzo-soprano has delivered
superb performances, leaving her audiences only with many memorable impressions.
Engagements of the 2002-03 season include the New York City Opera’s
new production of Dead Man Walking (Sister Helen), La Cenerentola
at the Châtelet, The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal
Opera, Covent Garden under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il
barbiere di Siviglia at the New National Theatre Tokyo, and Le
nozze di Figaro at the Bastille.
Appearances in future seasons will include Il barbiere di Siviglia
at the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, La Scala, and the Opéra
National de Paris, Idomeneo at the Netherlands Opera and the
Aix-en-Provence Festival, Maria Stuarda at the Grand Théâtre
de Genève, Falstaff with Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen
Festival, and a recital tour of North America.
Performances of the 2001-02 season included: Così fan tutte
with The Washington Opera; a new production of Giulio Cesare
(Sesto) at The Netherlands Opera with Marc Minkowski; Il barbiere
di Siviglia in Paris; Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) at
the Bayerische Staatsoper with Zubin Mehta; and La clemenza di Tito
(Annio) with the Santa Fe Opera. Concert appearances included performances
of: the Vivaldi Gloria with Riccardo Muti and the La Scala Orchestra;
Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Ensemble
Orchestral de Paris and John Nelson (also recorded for Virgin Classics);
and a recording which included Mozart’s “Parto, parto”
with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen.
Highlights of previous seasons included performances of: La Cenerentola
at La Scala, Madrid’s Teatro Real with Carlo Rizzi, and the New
Israeli Opera; L’Italiana in Algeri at the New Israeli
Opera; Le nozze di Figaro with the Santa Fe Opera; and Così
fan tutte, Les contes d’Hoffmann, and world premieres of both
Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Tod Machover’s Resurrection
at Houston Grand Opera. Concert performances have included: Bach’s
Mass in b minor with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; highlights
from Bernard Hermann’s Wuthering Heights in New York with
The Eos Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with The Cleveland
Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony and the Houston Symphony; L’enfant
et les sortilèges with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael
Tilson Thomas; and recitals at New York’s Morgan Library under the
auspices of the George London Foundation and in San Francisco sponsored
by the Schwabacher Debut Recitals series.
In 1995, on completing an apprenticeship with the Santa Fe Opera, she
received the Outstanding Apprentice Artist award. Other awards and honors
soon followed: Second Prize in the 1996 Eleanor McCollum Competition,
district winner of the 1996 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions,
the 1997 Sullivan Award, Second Prize in the 1998 Placido Domingo Operalia
Competition, first place in the 1998 Stewart Awards, winner of the 1998
George London Competition, and a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the
Shoshana Foundation.
Is it any surprise that this native Kansan is one of the millennium's
first ARIA awardees?
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