Joyce DiDonato and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez have asserted that La Donna del Lago - or Lady of the Lake – is as difficult as competing for gold at The Olympics. They made the comparison on ...

Mezzo-soprano star Joyce DiDonato will sing her first Met performances of one of her signature roles, the winsome heroine of Rossini's adaptation of the Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, beginning ...

Joyce DiDonato sings a joyful aria as Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola. Joyce DiDonato sings Angelina's joyful aria in Rossini's La Cenerentola. See the full opera on Great Performances at the Met ...

Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini's Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Flórez as her dashing prince. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that ...

As Joyce DiDonato walks down the hallway from the stage to her dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera in a wig of long, flowing curls,a full skirt and puff-sleeved blouse, she looks perfectly suited ...

The payoff of Rossini’s Donna del lago comes at the end: the hit aria “Tanti affetti,” sung by Elena, the main character. It is one of the most dazzling arias in the repertoire—the whole operatic ...

on the Met Opera’s premiere of Rossini’s luscious “Le Comte Ory” and one of its stars — mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato (pictured) — is in today’s paper. My beat is musical theater, so covering opera is ...

Joyce DiDonato sings Angelina’s joyful aria “Non più mesta” in Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola. The song from Act II’s finale celebrates Angelina’s marriage and life ahead with her prince, Don Ramiro.

Gramophone's Artist of the Year Joyce DiDonato returns to the Metropolitan Opera to make her role debut as Isolier in Rossini's Le comte Ory, which opens tonight, Thursday, March 24. Directed by ...

Reporting from New York — For young opera singers, lucky breaks don’t come easy -- and for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato they tend to be incredibly painful. This summer, DiDonato was in London ...

“Giusto ciel, in tal periglio,” from Rossini’s “Maometto II”; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, with Edoardo Müller conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome ...