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Joyce DiDonato - Mezzo-soprano

Barbican Hall, 07-May-2025 / 19:30

Handel: Jephtha

Wigmore Hall, 28-Mar-2025 / 19:30 and 21:45

Royal Festival Hall, 25-Sep-2024 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 2-Feb-2024 / 19:30

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Barbican Hall, 29-Jun 2023 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 5th and 6th of April 2022 / 19:30

Joyce DiDonato's concerts, unfortunately, cancelled due to the pandemic.

On the 29th of June 2021 at the Barbican Hall.

On the 5th of December 2020 with Il Pomo d’Oro at the Barbican Hall.

On the 1st of November 2020 with Antonio Pappano at the Barbican Hall.

On the 26th of June 2020 at the Barbican Hall

Barbican Hall, 26-Oct-2021 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Craig Terry

  • Haydn: Arianna a Naxos
  • Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
  • Johann Adolph Hasse: 'Morte col fiero aspetto’ from Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra
  • Handel: ‘É Pur così in un giorno...Piangerò la sorte mia’
  • Berlioz, Giuseppe Giordani, Alessandro Parisotti & Salvatore Rosa, Duke Ellington, Louiguy

Royal Albert Hall, 11-Aug-2019 / 11:00

  • Benjamin Beckman: new work
  • Berlioz: Les nuits d'été Op 7
  • Joyce DiDonato
  • Brass of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
  • The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
  • Antonio Pappano

Mascagni: 'Ave, Maria'

Barbican Hall, 31-May-2019 / 19:30

Handel: Agrippina (concert performance)

  • Joyce DiDonato as Agrippina, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev - Director and harpsichordist, Elsa Benoit as Poppea, Xavier Sabata as Ottone, Franco Fagioli as Nerone, Luca Pisaroni as Claudio, Andrea Mastroni as Pallante and Carlo Vistoli (who replaced Jakub Jósef Orlinski) as Narciso, Biagio Pizzuti as Lesbo

She won an Olivier Award in 2018.

Royal Albert Hall, 5-Sep-2018 / 19:30

  • Berlioz:
    • La mort de Cléopâtre
    • The Trojans – Royal Hunt and Storm
    • The Trojans – Dido’s death scene
    • Harold in Italy
  • Antoine Tamestit - Viola
  • Joyce DiDonato
  • Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
  • John Eliot Gardiner

She gave a masterclass on the 24th of November 2017 at the Wigmore Hall.

She gave a recital at the Royal Opera House on the 4th of June 2018.

Barbican Hall, 20-Feb-2018 / 19:00

Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Semi-staged performance)

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth - Conductor, Leonard Foglia - Director, Terence McNally - Librettist, Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen, Michael Mayes as Joseph De Rocher, Maria Zifchak as Ms Patrick De Rocher Measha Bruggergosmann as Sister Rose, Lucy Schaufer as Jade Boucher, Toni Marsol as Owen Hart, Maria Hinojosa as Kitty Hart, Finchley Children's Music Group, BBC Singers

Wigmore Hall, 18th and 21st on December 2017

Barbican Hall, 16-May-2017 / 19:00

Handel: Ariodante (concert performance)

  • The English Concert, Harry Bicket, Christiane Karg as Ginervra, Harvey
  • Joyce DiDonato was unable to participate due to a medical procedure and was replaced by Alice Coote.

Joyce DiDonato sang the title role in Rossini's Semiramide on the 19th and the 22nd of November 2017 at the Royal Opera House.

Barbican Hall, 22-Nov-2016 / 19:30

Arias by Purcell, Jommelli and Handel

  • Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d'Oro with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting

Barbican Hall, 17-Apr-2015 / 19:30

  • Ravel:
    • Shéhérazade
    • Valses nobles et sentimentales
  • New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert - Conductor
  • Joyce DiDonato

Barbican Hall, 25-Sep-2014 / 19:30

Bel canto arias by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Carafa, Mercadante and Pacini.

In 2010 she was given a Gramophone Award for Rossini's Colbran, the Muse.

She won the 2007 Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Award.

Wigmore Hall, 6th and 8th of September 2014

Recital with pianist Antonio Pappano

  • Haydn: Arianna a Naxos HXXVIb:2
  • Rossini:
    • Beltà crudele
    • No. 8 La danza from Les soirées musicales
  • Francesco Santoliquido: I canti della sera
  • Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me
  • Stephen Collins Foster: Beautiful Dreamer (arr. David Krane)
  • Jerome Kern:
    • Act 2 The Siren's Song from Leave It to Jane
    • Go, Little Boat from Oh, My Dear!
    • Show Boat:
      • Act 1 Life Upon the Wicked Stage
      • Act 1 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
  • Havelock Nelson: No. 1 Lovely Jimmie from Four Irish Songs
  • Celius Dougherty: Love in the Dictionary
  • Jerome Moross: Act 1 Lazy Afternoon from The Golden Apple
  • William Bolcom: No. 2 Amor from 12 Cabaret Songs Volumes 1 and 2
  • Villa-Lobos: Act 1 Food for Thought from Magdalena: a Musical Adventure
  • Rodgers: Act 1 My Funny Valentine from Babes in Arms
  • Robert Lowry: How Can I Keep From Singing? (arr. David Krane)

Joyce DiDonato sang Arlen’s Over The Rainbow at the last night of the proms on the 7th of September 2013.

Royal Albert Hall, 25-Aug-2009

  • Handel: Aria 'Ah, mio cor!' Act 2 Scene 1