Show Notes
The New Yorker magazine called Joyce DiDonato “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation.” Joyce has towered at the top of the industry as a performer, a producer, and a fierce advocate for the arts. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.
Joyce enjoys a musical partnership with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra and, of course, the Metropolitan Opera.
Joyce’s distinctively varied 2025-26 season commenced with season-opening concerts for the Minnesota Orchestra and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as the re-opening Powell Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a Kevin Puts’s World Premiere, House of Tomorrow.
She only recently made her Lincoln Center Theater stage debut as The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and is about to star in the Met’s production of Innocence by Kaija Saariaho.
Concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Nézet-Séguin and the Berlin Philharmoniker. Joyce also joins the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for her second European tour with Yannick and this orchestra following a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at Carnegie Hall.
She is also, quite plainly, a genuine delight.
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