The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Joyce DiDonato
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* Notes * Last night Joyce DiDonato (pictured left, photograph by Josef Fischnaller) performed with Il Complesso Barocco at the Green Music Center in Sonoma County. The performance is part of DiDonato’s “Drama Queens” tour, which involves a program of Baroque arias in Italian. Beginning with Antonio Cesti’s “Intorno all’idol mio” from Orontea, it was evident…
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Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (pictured left, photograph by Sheila Rock) is midway through a tour with Il Complesso Barocco. Their last stop in the United States is tonight at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. How did you get interested in opera?I was studying Music Education in college, and could get a bit more…
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* Notes * A new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Act I Scene 2 pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) opened at San Francisco Opera on Saturday. Conductor Riccardo Frizza had the orchestra sounding rather jaunty. The horn, clarinet, harp, and cello all gave solid performances. There were moments when the orchestra was much…
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* Notes * The Alexander String Quartet (pictured left with Jake Heggie and Joyce DiDonato, photograph by Brian Byrne) celebrated 30 years with a new commission presented by San Francisco Performances. Yesterday's performance at Herbst Theatre began with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato singing Hahn's Venezia, accompanied by Jake Heggie on piano. DiDonato sang these evocative songs with…
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* Notes * The Metropolatian Opera’s new Baroque pastiche, The Enchanted Island, was shown as a simulcast yesterday. The English libretto, created by Jeremy Sams, uses characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Tempest. “Arise, ye subterranean winds” from The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, which has been attributed to Purcell, was the…
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