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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. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to the Times, Joyce has soared to the top of the industry both as a performer and a fierce advocate for the arts, gaining international prominence in operas by Handel and Mozart, as well as through her wide-ranging, acclaimed discography. She is also widely acclaimed for the bel canto roles of Rossini and Donizetti.
Joyce’s 2020/21 season began with performances of her baroque-inspired programme My Favourite Things with Il Pomo d’Oro in Bayreuth and Valencia, as well as a breathtaking recital for the Met Stars Live in Concert series. Further season highlights will include performances of Joyce’s Songplay programme with Craig Terry in Oviedo, Madrid and Barcelona, and Werther in concert under Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. This year Joyce is also delighted to be an Artist Ambassador in partnership with the classical music streaming service, Primephonic.
Joyce was Carnegie Hall’s 19/20 Perspectives Artist with appearances including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Muti and Schubert’s Winterreise in recital with Nézet-Séguin and a. The season also held the final tour of her album In War & Peace with Il Pomo d’Oro to South America culminating in Washington DC, and a tour with the Orchestre Métropolitain under Nézet-Séguin.
La mezzo-soprano Okka von der Damerau porte en elle toute l’authenticité des figures qu’elle interprète sur les scènes lyriques (Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden…), grâce à un timbre ample et une diction limpide. Son Prix spécial du jury à l’International Singing Competition for Wagner Voices à Venise en 2006 augurait ses interprétations éclatantes de personnages de la Tétralogie au Festival de Bayreuth, à Amsterdam ou au Bayerische Staatsoper, d’Ortrud dans Lohengrin ou de Brangäne dans Tristan und Isolde. Également magnétique dans les opus de Verdi (Il Trovatore, Un ballo in maschera), elle offre par ailleurs une grande place aux lieder (Mahler, Schönberg, Martin), et aux œuvres symphoniques (Missa Solemnis, Symphonies de Mahler) avec des orchestres de renom.