Joyce DiDonato Performs in Kennedy Center, Washington DC

By Raisa Massuda, 18 February 2011

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Reviewed at Kennedy Center: Concert Hall, Washington on 15 February 2011

Haydn, Berenice, che fai, Hob XXIVa:10, cantata for soprano & orchestra

Rossini, L'Invito

Rossini, Le Dodo des enfants

Rossini, La Chanson de Zora

Chaminade, Viens, mon bien-aimé!

Chaminade, Villanelle

Chaminade, Album d'enfants: Aubade, Op.126 no.2

Chaminade, L'été

Rossini, Otello: Assisa al piè d'un salice

Hahn, Venezia

Buzzi-Peccia, Lolita, Serenata Spagnola

Leoncavallo, Serenata Francese

Chiara, La Spagnola

Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano

David Zobel, Piano

Joyce DiDonato in the Venice of the North

Nicolas Nguyen, 11th April

Joyce DiDonato enchants the public of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with a program of art songs and arias inspired by Venice.

****1

DiDonato returns to Carnegie Hall

Richard Peters, 4th November

Though Joyce DiDonato is an incredibly versatile artist, her performance at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening reaffirmed that she is, above all, one of the leading interpreters of Rossini today.

****1

Joyce DiDonato and David Zobel at the Wigmore Hall: Recital on a theme of Venice

Julia Savage, 4th July

Venexia, Venise, Venedig: city of singing gondoliers, loved-up couples and pigeons. That was the picture painted last night at the sold-out recital by Joyce DiDonato and her accompanist David Zobel at the Wigmore Hall.

*****

When we dead awaken: Mahler 2 returns to Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 8th March

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra deliver a supreme meditation on the power of music and faith.

*****

Joyce DiDonato’s Berlioz takes flight in Auckland

Simon Holden, 29th November

The unexpected grounding of Airbus A320s across the globe has musical consequences in Auckland, but Joyce DiDonato’s Berlioz saves the day.

****1

Philadelphia Orchestra delivers magnificent Mahler 3 at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 15th October

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in a multifaceted performance of Mahler’s monumental, life-affirming score.

*****

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Raisa Massuda

A firm believer in the importance of music at any age, Raisa teaches Opera Appreciation Seminars in a Senior Center in Baltimore, MD. She has launched a Live Opera for Seniors series, allowing her low-income students to study and attend free. Raisa is the author of a music and opera blog called Mandolin Vision.