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Name: SYLVIA L'Ange de Nisida Donizetti
Start: 2018-7-18T19-19-30-00
End: 2018-7-18T23-23-50-00
Location: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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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TWITTER BUZZ: Joyce as Stuarda

Joyce el-Khoury awesome in entire Mary Stuart run. Sat nite exquisite. Brava! @JoyceSoprano #SOMaryStuart @SeattleOpera — Eugene Carlson (@mauryisl) March 13, 2016 @JoyceSoprano @carlomontanaro @SeattleOpera Wonderful performance! — Hattie Kauffman (@Hatsfree) March 13, 2016 @JoyceSoprano &I was the gal on lower left orchestra side

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March 15, 2016

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On Saturday night, El-Khoury scored a triumph in the title role, combining an exquisite delicacy of sound with affecting vulnerability — yet producing plenty of steel in the confrontation scene in which she denounces Elizabeth as a “vil bastarda.” On Sunday, few in the house realized that El-Khoury had just sung this taxing role the previous evening — and you couldn’t tell it from her Sunday performance, either. Skillfully saving her voice when she could, singing full-out when it counted, El-Khoury rallied for a remarkable show and a final mighty effort, a brave high D. Brava!

– Seattle Times

Slippedisc: Joyce to sing two Marias in 18 hours

Joyce will be performing opening night (tomorrow) as well as her regularly scheduled matinee performance on Sunday with Seattle Opera. Slippedisc highlighted the fact that Joyce will, in fact, be singing Stuarda twice in 18 hours - a feat for

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February 25, 2016

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(SEATTLE TIMES) Voices like weapons: the fire and fury of Seattle Opera’s ‘Mary Stuart’

Great feature in The Seattle Times: “I’ve been working the last few years to train my voice like an acrobat to be able to do all the things bel canto requires,” El-Khoury said. “It’s hard to put into words, but

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February 25, 2016

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Joyce sings “with tireless passion” and displays “power and agility to burn”

"Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury is equally fine as his conflicted wife Pauline, singing with tireless passion and pathos in the substantial dramatic duets with the three men in her life and displaying power and agility to burn in the show-stopping

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May 5, 2015

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Twitter Buzz: Les Martyrs is officially released

5 star review for #LesMartyrs from @Operanow they say: '@Spikelmyers and @JoyceSoprano are thrilling

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May 4, 2015

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Opera Now gives Les Martyrs ★★★★★

★★★★★ from Opera Now for Opera Rara's Les Martyrs (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Great review of

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May 4, 2015

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CBC Music: Joyce El-Khoury stars in the first complete performance of Les Martyrs since 1840

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May 4, 2015

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18jul7:30 pmSYLVIA L'Ange de Nisida DonizettiRoyal Opera House, Covent Garden / Opera Rara

21jul7:30 pmSYLVIA L'Ange de Nisida DonizettiRoyal Opera House, Covent Garden / Opera Rara

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

TWITTER BUZZ: Joyce as Stuarda

Slippedisc: Joyce to sing two Marias in 18 hours

(SEATTLE TIMES) Voices like weapons: the fire and fury of Seattle Opera’s ‘Mary Stuart’

Joyce sings “with tireless passion” and displays “power and agility to burn”

Twitter Buzz: Les Martyrs is officially released

Opera Now gives Les Martyrs ★★★★★

CBC Music: Joyce El-Khoury stars in the first complete performance of Les Martyrs since 1840

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