Joyce DiDonato

Jephte/Dido and Aeneas review – magnificent DiDonato brings understated passion to Purcell

Joyce DiDonato probed Dido’s desire and anguish with characteristic subtlety, while the Pomo d’Oro Choir were superb in Carissimi’s Jephte

Tim Ashley

04, Feb, 2024 @3:08 PM

The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

Imogen Tilden

07, Dec, 2022 @4:00 PM

Classical home listening: Joyce DiDonato’s Eden; Coco Tomita’s Origins

Spanning Ives and Mahler to Rachel Portman, the mezzo-activist hits nature’s reset button; the BBC young violinist’s debut is a winner; plus, a great Opera on 3

Fiona Maddocks

26, Feb, 2022 @12:00 PM

The week in classical: Theodora; OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything – review

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work allows Handel’s genius to shine through

Fiona Maddocks

05, Feb, 2022 @12:30 PM

Theodora review – bombs, a brothel and a brilliant cast

Katie Mitchell’s modern-day staging of Handel’s oratorio is probing but problematic. The cast, however, is one of the finest ever assembled for the work

Tim Ashley

01, Feb, 2022 @12:45 PM

Joyce DiDonato/Craig Terry review – thoughtful programme of panache and fierce beauty

The mezzo-soprano’s affecting recital celebrated the liberating immediacy of live performance with music from Handel to Berlioz, Mahler and Edith Piaf

Tim Ashley

27, Oct, 2021 @11:32 AM

Schubert: Winterreise review – high drama from Joyce DiDonato

The star mezzo makes Schubert’s great song cycle her own

Fiona Maddocks

10, Apr, 2021 @11:00 AM

The Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala review – thrilling singing, live from the stars’ living-rooms

This technically remarkable event offered performances from more than 40 of the Met’s regular singers – as well as an irresistible peek into their homes

Tim Ashley

26, Apr, 2020 @1:29 PM

The week in classical: Agrippina; The Intelligence Park; The Greek Passion – review

Joyce DiDonato’s stop-at-nothing empress leads a top ensemble cast in Barrie Kosky’s enthralling Agrippina. Plus dizzying Gerald Barry and a powerful Martinů rarity

Fiona Maddocks

28, Sep, 2019 @10:59 AM

Agrippina review – DiDonato formidable as power-hungry empress

Joyce DiDonato gives one of her finest performances in Barrie Kosky’s witty and unnerving staging of Handel’s opera of political manipulation in ancient Rome

Tim Ashley

24, Sep, 2019 @11:32 AM

Joyce DiDonato: ‘I’m trying to balance activism and joy’

The celebrated mezzo-soprano on trading her first vocation for ‘the dark side’, the genius of Handel – and channelling House of Cards in her latest, ruthless role

Fiona Maddocks

15, Sep, 2019 @9:00 AM