Joyce DiDonato - Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio - La Clemenza di Tito.

[vendettamia]

Gorgeous as always!!!

[SuperOrganmaster]

Who is the clarinettist on this recording?

[dacor31]

Are you gossiping ?

[Dogaradodia]

And the winner is...

Joyce Di Donato...

Miss Photogenic

[SAMARA3365]

I'ts quite good, she seems to listen much to Cecilia Bartoli, her way of expression ( to much air in many sounds) her coloraturas are very much alike. I also don't hear a young man, but a woman, it's to feminin and i hear more "listen to me, what a reat singer i am" than the role of Sesto. To me this more Rossini than Mozart. Listen to Garancia's Sesto, it is mor Mozartian and much more honest and in the role!

[90lysander]

@SAMARA3365 This sounds nothing like Bartoli ... and is FAR more interesting that Garanca, who puts me to sleep.

[operaticxingenue]

@90lysander AMEN to Garanca being boring. She's just... *SNOOOOORE*

[90lysander]

@operaticxingenue Glad someone agrees with me! Everything Garanca does is commendable, in its way - solidly sung, is the word I would use. But I can't ever remember a note of it.

I actually read one reviewer on Amazon put both she and diDonato in his category of "anonymous-sounding modern-day mezzos." Whaaaa? Joyce is many things, but anonymous certainly isn't one of them!

[amarantaviera]

@90lysander That really is totally crazy. DiDonato inhabits her characters and sings with a fluidity and beauty of tone that's missing in a lot of singing right now. Garanca has a lovely instrument, but she's kind of like the Netrebko of mezzos.

[90lysander]

@amarantaviera I think Garanca is a superior singer to Netrebko (although the latter has a more individual tone), but yes, very few of their performances stick in my minds.

[acanthe83]

pas terrible! ily a un souffle sur cetaines notes et ça manque de legato

[foropera]

@acanthe83 . Avec le son Youtube et ce MP3 hyper écrasé, il y a de toute façon de l'air sur tous les sons, comment juger quoi que ce soit?

[vitellia]

Wow, I didn't know Johnny Depp was a classical music fan, let alone Didonato's. But then, he always seems to have good tastes in just about everything else, I guess it makes sense.

What's whetting my appetite even more is actually Anna Caterina Antonacci's Vitellia. I really hope this production is available on DVD.

[nclysander]

Hmmm, it's possible that diDonato had gone somewhere to see Depp, rather than vice versa. But I'm really not sure as to the origin of the picture. Leo (you don't mind if I call you that, do you?) - do you have any more info about this?

[leoperarm]

no I don't mind, that's my name xD about the picture, I don't have information, sorry, I just took it from DessayBestSinger XDDDDD

[DessayBestSingerII]

@leoperarm hm...podrias llamarme por mi nombre! kidding ^^

[JaRoWi1647]

That´s an original photo from

Montblanc's 100th Anniversary Celebration on April 5, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland.

[tenorelirico001]

according to joyce's website, they met at an event joyce was singing at in paris.

[leoperarm]

oh nice! TY!

[Thrax1982]

Can we have 'Deh per questo istante solo' too?

[leoperarm]

OK...no problem ;)

[Thrax1982]

Thanks!

'Parto, parto' is one of my favourite arias but there are so many different versions already on Youtube.

'Deh per questo' is equally great but not so well represented.

[leoperarm]

there it is!

[leporello89]

Leo, las arias de Vitellia por favor...y DiDonato como siempre impresionante :)

[leoperarm]

oki...jeje!

[hillevifan]

any way you could post Vitellia's arias pleaseeee?

[Klassizismus]

She's really good!!!!! Elina Garanca, Joyce diDonato and Cecilia Bartoli are my favourite mezzos of today! Each of them is a great artist and personality!!

[leoperarm]

TOTALLY agreed!!!^^

[DessayBestSinger]

wAw the aria is really difficult! and DiDonato really great!

I love the picture with Johnny Depp at the end!

[leoperarm]

me too!^^

nice movie btw xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[DessayBestSinger]

yeah, a little break xD