{"id":8748,"date":"2012-12-10T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8748"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:27:25","slug":"awards_didonato","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8748","title":{"rendered":"At The Awards: Joyce DiDonato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce DiDonato is the American opera singer par excellence. Onstage or off, there are few people in opera who radiate this Kansas native&#8217;s degree of natural goodness and warmth. For all these qualities, however, the intensity, fury, and abandon of roles such as Donizetti&#8217;s <em>Maria Stuarda <\/em>are well within her emotional range, as she proved at Houston Grand Opera last season. This season she performs a recital program called &#8220;Drama Queens,&#8221; featuring Baroque arias sung by royal characters (recorded by Virgin Records). Operatic appearances include a reprise of the title role in <em>Maria Stuarda <\/em>at the Metropolitan Opera, Romeo in Bellini&#8217;s<em> I Capuleti e i Montecchi <\/em>in Munich and Kansas City, Elena in Rossini&#8217;s <em>La donna del lago <\/em>in Santa Fe, and the title role in <em>Cendrillon<\/em> in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/features\/?fid=187&amp;fyear=2013\">Read Zachary Woolfe&#8217;s tribute to Joyce DiDonato<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Musical America&#8217;s Edna Landau, left,<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>interviews Joyce DiDonato, 2013 Vocalist of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bffl4lRjaJc?rel=0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>2013 Vocalist of the Year Joyce DiDonato<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>accepts her award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3V4D_14LnY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_8780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80988-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80988\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80988-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80988.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Vocalist of the Year Joyce DiDonato, 2013 Composer of the Year David Lang, 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year Wu Man, 2013 Musician of the Year Gustavo Dudamel, 2013 Educator of the Year Jos\u00e9 Antonio Abreu<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8781\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80983-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80983\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8781\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80983-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80983.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Vocalist of the Year Joyce DiDonato,  2013 Instrumentalist of the Year Wu Man,  2013 Composer of the Year David Lang<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8748\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce DiDonato is the American opera singer par excellence. Onstage or off, there are few people in opera who radiate this Kansas native&#8217;s degree of natural goodness and warmth. For all these qualities, however, the intensity, fury, and abandon of roles such as Donizetti&#8217;s Maria Stuarda are well within her emotional range, as she proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29062,"menu_order":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29075,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748\/revisions\/29075"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}