CD Reviews: Donizetti’s Belisario Opera Rara
"Joyce El-Khoury, as Antonina, Belisario’s wife, is a formidable talent whose open-toned voice allied to vocal sensitivity and characterisation is too rare these days." -Robert J Farr, MusicWeb-International.com, full review "Sample a section online of Antonina’s Act 1 cavatina, Sin la
Opera Rara’s Belisario: Sunday Times Album of the Week
"Joyce El-Khoury (Antonina) and Russell Thomas (Alamiro) are outstanding." -Hugh Canning, Sunday Times Opera Rara's Belisario chosen as Album of the Week in the UK's Sunday Times: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id
DRESS FOR SUCCESS
Soprano Joyce El-Khoury on what it takes to inhabit two unique, challenging roles in Canadian Opera’s La Bohème
by Joyce El-Khoury, published in National Post, Monday, September 23, 2013 (front page Arts) photo credit: De Nederlandse Opera, Hans van den Bogaard May 2013 Who am I? A question that I’ve been asking myself for the last few weeks. This question
Belisario nominated for Opera Awards!
Today the nominations for the new Opera Awards show in London were announced. Included in the nominations is the @OperaRara @BBCSymphony performance of Donizetti's Belisario which took place on October 28, 2012!!! Belisario is nominated in the category of 'Rediscovered
Recording Donizetti’s Belisario in Pictures
[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Joyce El-Khoury was the star of the evening. Not only is the vocal range of the role enormous, she exercised complete control over the coloratura and the dynamics; at times the pianissimo top notes were spine-tingling. -BachTrack.com The week leading
Opera Rara: Donizetti Belisario
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2012 "Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury lit a bigger fire as Antonina, his poisonous wife, though El-Khoury’s skill in tapering dynamics and placing her heart in the audience’s palms made the character much more than the standard harpy." -Geoff Brown, London Times "Joyce
BBC Music Magazine
“Soprano Joyce El-Khoury is taking on the role of the vengeful wife of a Byzantine general in Donizetti’s Belisario this weekend. Sir Mark Elder is conducting a live performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican this Sunday, as