Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. The acclaimed mezzo-soprano has towered at the top of the industry both as a performer, a producer, and a fierce advocate for the arts. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century. DiDonato joins WFMT to discuss her residency with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and to preview her upcoming performance of Kevin Puts’s Emily — No Prisoner Be with the genre-defying ensemble Time for Three at Symphony Center. Learn more HERE.
An Interview with Joyce DiDonato
Playlist
All selections feature mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
Gioachino Rossini: Rondo finale, “Fra il padre, e fra l’amante” from La donna del lago
Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Edoardo Müller
Franz Joseph Haydn: “Dove sei, mio bel tesoro?” from Arianna a Naxos
Antonio Pappano, piano
George Frideric Handel: Duet, “Sol per te” from Silla, HWV 10
Patrizia Ciofi, soprano
Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis
Handel: “Crystal streams in murmurs flowing” from Susanna, HWV 66
Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev
Giulio Caccini arr. Craig Terry: “Amarilli, mia bella”
Craig Terry, piano
Chuck Israels, double bass
Gene Scheer arr. Andrew Thomas & Craig Terry: “Lean Away”
Craig Terry, piano
Kevin Puts: Duet, “The end is it here already” from The Hours
Kelli O’Hara, soprano
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Puts: Emily – No Prisoner Be
No. 7, “Because I could not stop for Death”
No. 19, “Her Face”
No. 23, “There is another sky”
Time for Three
