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Cendrillon with Joyce DiDonato
End of the Season Treat at the Metropolitan Opera
By: Paul J. Pelkonen - Apr 22, 2018
Joyce Di Donato as Cendrillon
At the end of the 2014 season, the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato climbed atop a wedding cake at the end of Rossini's La Cenerentola, a role in which she caused a sensation at the Metropolitan Opera. This month, DiDonato returned to the stage of America's largest opera house--and to the ballrooms of a very familiar fairy tale--to sing the title role in Cendrillon, the 1899 adaptation of the Cinderella story by Jules Massenet.
Cendrillon is Massenet's fourteenth opera, written at the apex of his popularity as the last acknowledged master of the French romantic style. As conducted here by Bertrand de Billy, its score has the weight of fairy cake, high in sugary melodies and whipped by conductor Bertrand de Billy into an airy soufflé of sound. It's hard to believe it, but this run marked the Metropolitan Opera debut for an enchanting work.
The Met should not have waited this long. Unlike the better-known Rossini adaptation, this Cendrillon hews close to the familiar version of the fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1698. All the elements known to children everywhere: the glass slipper, the ball, Prince
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Joyce DiDonato
American mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) is an American opera singer and recitalist. A coloratura mezzo-soprano,[1] she has performed operas and concert works spanning from the 19th-century Romantic era to those by Handel and Mozart.
Educated at Wichita State University and the Academy of Vocal Arts, DiDonato began her career in mid-1990s, participating in young artist programs of several opera companies, most notably Houston Grand Opera. Since then, she began having engagements across the United States and Europe. She made debuts at La Scala in Rossini's La Cenerentola in the 2000/01 season, the Royal Opera in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in 2003, and the Metropolitan Opera as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the 2005/06 season. She has performed in world premieres of several operas, such as Michael Daugherty's Jackie O (1997), Mark Adamo's Little Women (1999/2000), Jake Heggie's Great Scott (2015), and Kevin Puts's The Hours (2022).
DiDonato has won multiple awards including the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo.
Early life and education
[edit]Joyce Flaherty was born in Prairie Village, Kansas in 1969, the sixth of seven children in an
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