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Joyce’s debut solo album ‘Écho’ is nominated for an International Opera Award

Joyce's debut solo album 'Écho' is nominated for an Opera Award. Winners of the 2018 International Opera Awards sponsored by Mazars will be announced at a red carpet ceremony on Monday 9th April. Both Joyce and tenor Michael Spyres'

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January 29, 2018

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Royal Opera House Magazine: How to restore a lost operatic masterpiece

The Royal Opera House Magazine has a fascinating piece in its current issue that delves into the uncovering of Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida. Joyce will star in the world premiere July 18-21, details here.

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January 20, 2018

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Joyce to open the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018-19 season as Tatyana (Eugene Onegin)

The Canadian Opera Company has announced their 2018/19 season, which opens with Tchaikovsky’s well-loved opera Eugene Onegin. The production will star Joyce El-Khoury as Tatyana and Gordon Bintner in the title role. For a full list of the cast/creative team

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January 18, 2018

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La Bohème LIVE STREAM at Teatro Real

Tune in to Teatro Real's LIVE FEED of Puccini's La Bohème (2pm EST, 7pm GMT, 8pm CET)! Joyce is Musetta, Anita Hartig is Mimi, Stephen Costello is Rodolfo, Joan Martin-Royo is Schaunard, Etienne Dupuis is Marcello, Mika Kares is Colline,

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December 29, 2017

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Unveiling a new photo by Fay Fox, which is featured in the current issue of Classical Singer Magazine accompanying a story by Jason Vest.

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October 16, 2017

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FREE STREAM FOR CANADIANS: CBC MUSIC

CBC Music is offering Joyce's debut solo album, ÉCHO, as a free stream 'FirstPlay' starting today, ramping up for the CD's digital release on September 8! If you're in Canada, you can enjoy this perk here. Either way, there's a

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August 31, 2017

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Twitter Buzz: Glyndebourne’s La Traviata

Here's the word from the twitter-sphere about Joyce's performances as Violetta in Glynebourne's La traviata: Amazing La Traviata at Glyndebourne yesterday. @JoyceSoprano was incredible. Great end to my 2017 season. Already looking forward to 2018. — Maggie C (@Maggie_C30) August 26, 2017 Birthday

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August 27, 2017

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Facebook Live: Joyce goes live on Glyndebourne’s Page

Joyce took time to answer questions on Glyndebourne's Facebook Page. Check her out backstage, before her performance of La traviata.

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August 15, 2017

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Best of all, however, was Lebanese-Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury as Violetta. The role needs someone beautiful, with a sensational voice, slim build (so that the tuberculosis looks believable) and great acting skills, especially in the final despairing act and El-Khoury had all of those in abundance. I had seen her in the same role at the Royal Opera House earlier this year and was stunned by her performance. At Glyndebourne, it was even better with the deceptive simplicity of the sets accentuating the effectiveness and glory of her performance. Glyndebourne always tries hard to bring something special to its productions without ever overdoing it. In May, I had thought their La Traviata was as close to perfection as one could hope for. This time I thought it was, if anything, even better."

– Daily Express (UK)

Opera News: Take 5

Joyce stopped by Opera News to talk about Violetta (which she'll be performing with Glyndebourne August 1-27), her career and her upcoming Donizetti world-premiere event with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the New Year! Watch and listen here.

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July 20, 2017

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19aug7:30 pmMIRRA Sardanapolo LisztWeimar Staatskapelle

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Under its Principal Conductor Kirill Karabits, the Staatskapelle Weimar will give the world premiere of a rediscovered Italian opera Sardanapalo by Franz Liszt – which was left incomplete and has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for almost 100 years. ‘The name of the composer Franz Liszt has never been associated with Italian opera’, Karabits explains. ‘I’m delighted to be conducting the premiere of Sardanapalo in Weimar. This discovery should open a new page not only in Liszt’s musical heritage but also in the music history of the 19th century.’ Act I of the opera survives complete. This will be presented in a concert version.

The music has been resurrected by David Trippett, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. He discovered the opera manuscript was legible more than ten years ago, a century after it had been catalogued and largely forgotten in the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv in Weimar. ‘The music that survives is breath-taking – a unique blend of Italianate lyricism and adventurous harmonic turns and side-steps’, Trippett explains. ‘There is nothing else quite like it in the operatic world. It is suffused with Liszt’s characteristic style, but contains elements from Bellini and Meyerbeer, alongside glimmers of Wagner.’

On 19 and 20 August 2018, soprano Joyce El-Khoury and tenor Charles Castronovo will lead the cast in the world premiere of this notable work in Weimar, where Liszt composed it and where he served as Kapellmeister of the Hofkapelle, today’s Staatskapelle Weimar.

The libretto, based on Lord Byron’s tragedy Sardanapalus, is topical. It tells the story of Sardanapalo, King of ancient Assyria (modern-day Syria and Northern Iraq). He is a peace-loving monarch, more interested in revelry and women than politics and war. He deplores violence and brutality, and, perhaps naively, he believes in the innate goodness of humankind, but is overthrown by rebels and burns himself alive with his lover, amid scents and spices, in a great inferno. Liszt’s opera focusses on the love between king Sardanapalo and his favourite concubine, Mirra, who seeks to persuade the king to go to war to defend his realm, against his better judgment.

Known only to a handful of Liszt scholars, the manuscript – with much of its music written in shorthand and only one act completed – was assumed to be fragmentary, often illegible and consequently indecipherable. However, after Trippett spent the last three years working critically on the manuscript, including using Liszt’s own instructions for orchestrating the score, the music can be heard for the first time. As the Cambridge academic explained: ‘Fortunately, Liszt left just enough information to retrieve what was evidently the continuous musical conception he had at the time. We will never know why exactly he abandoned his work on the opera. It seems Liszt was not satisfied with the libretto for Acts II and III.’ Trippett adds: ‘I suspect he would have been surprised to learn that Act I is resurfacing in the 21^st century. But I like to think he would have smiled on it.’

The world premiere concert performance will be broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and a recording will be released with audite.

A trailer with extracts of ‘Sardanapalo’ can be seen here, a research documentary chronicling the resurrection is here, and a short aria is available here.

A critical edition of the music will be published by Editio Musica Budapest (Universal Music Publishing) in 2019, and the underlying research will appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association later this year.

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20aug7:30 pmMIRRA Sardanapolo LisztWeimar Staatskapelle

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The world premiere concert performance will be broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and a recording will be released with audite.

A trailer with extracts of ‘Sardanapalo’ can be seen here, a research documentary chronicling the resurrection is here, and a short aria is available here.

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Joyce’s debut solo album ‘Écho’ is nominated for an International Opera Award

Royal Opera House Magazine: How to restore a lost operatic masterpiece

Joyce to open the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018-19 season as Tatyana (Eugene Onegin)

La Bohème LIVE STREAM at Teatro Real

Lady in Red

FREE STREAM FOR CANADIANS: CBC MUSIC

Twitter Buzz: Glyndebourne’s La Traviata

Facebook Live: Joyce goes live on Glyndebourne’s Page

Opera News: Take 5

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