Joyce DiDonato - one of the world’s leading mezzo-sopranos - coaches members of The Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in this masterclass.
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American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato made her Royal Opera debut in 2003 as Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), and has since returned to sing Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni, including on tour with The Royal Opera to Japan), Cendrillon, Elena (La donna del lago), Maria Stuarda, Charlotte (Werther), Semiramide and in Plácido Domingo’s 2012 Operalia concert and a recital with Antonio Pappano. In the 2019/20 Season she sings the title role of Agrippina.
DiDonato grew up in Kansas and studied music education at Wichita State University and singing at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, on the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Singer Program (1995) and on San Francisco Opera’s Merola Young Artists Program (1997). She won second prize in Operalia in 1998 and has gone on to win international acclaim in bel canto and other repertories. Engagements include Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sycorax (The Enchanted Island), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Isolier (Le Comte Ory), Maria Stuarda, Cendrillon, Adalgisa (Norma) and Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Cendrillon for the Liceu, Barcelona, Didon (Les Troyens) for Vienna State Opera, Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) for La Scala, Milan, Idamante (Idomeneo) for Paris Opéra and Edinburgh Festival, Elena for Paris Opéra and Santa Fe Festival, Sister Helen Prejean (Heggie’s Dead Man Walking) for Teatro Real, Madrid, Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) in concert for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Agrippina in concert in Spain and France.
DiDonato appears regularly at the world’s leading concert halls and sang at the 2013 BBC Last Night of the Proms. Her wide discography includes seven solo albums. She was the 2010 Gramophone Artist of the Year, won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo in 2012, in 2015 and 2017 won Female Singer of the Year at the ECHO Klassik Awards, in 2017 won a Gramophone Award and in 2018 won the Handel Music Prize and an Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in opera.