March 2025

Joyce To Make Role Debut As Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Munich

Operawire shares that the Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its production of “Manon Lescaut. The company said that Joyce El-Khoury will be stepping into the role of Manon Lescaut on April 17, 20, and 24 for Ermonela Jaho. This season

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March 31, 2025

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El-Khoury's Médée was both a vocal and dramatic triumph. From her first appearance, El-Khoury's magnetic stage presence was further enhanced by her wearing an elegant Middle Eastern kaftan...El-Khoury used her beautiful lyric soprano to convey a complex Médée. She is attractive and feminine, yet regal and strong-willed. El-Khourv's diction was impeccable...one could have mistaken her for a French stage actress. Importantly, her acting was natural, never stylized.

– La Scena Musicale

Joyce El-Khoury’s Médée captivated from first to last, her ‘Vous voyez de vos fils’ mesmerising, shot through with steel. El-Khoury’s acting was of both body and voice…El-Khoury made the opera’s terrifying climax unforgettable.

– Gramophone Magazine

Inspirée par la mise en scène, la Médée littéralement habitée de Joyce El-Khoury possède une voix aussi large que longue de tragédienne.

– Le Figaro

Le soprano d’origine libanaise possède une dissociation naturelle des registres vocaux qui n’est pas sans donner du relief aux étrangetés de la magicienne - graves pro-fonds, aigus tranchants comme des lames.

– Le Monde

The staging proved to be a powerful showcase for Joyce El-Khoury’s first attempt at Cherubini’s anti-heroine. This charismatic Lebanese-Canadian soprano sang Médée in a late-classical style which made me long to hear her as Gluck’s Iphigénie (en Tauride) or Alceste, surely the vocal models for Cherubini’s incandescent sorceress. Her histrionic performance...suggested that Berlioz’s Cassandre, possibly even Didon, may be within her reach. Every member of the supporting cast complemented her towering central performance.

– Opera Logue

La distribution fait appel à Joyce El-Khoury dans le rôle-titre qu’elle incarne de toute sa force de tragédienne. La voix part haut mais s’enfonce aussi dans des profondeurs infernales, servies par un timbre mordoré tout aussi solide que dans les aigues. La projection est excellente, le bref passage en arabe – lorsqu’elle chante une comptine aux enfants – est léger et gracieux, tandis que sa haine se déchaîne face à Jason dans leur duo furieux.

– Opera Online

Le rôle, écrasant, est confié à Joyce El-Khoury, voix sonore et assurée, généreuse, au solide médium, d’un legato exemplaire. Elle porte l’ouvrage, belle et déchirante, farouche et humaine. Son combat intérieur est traduit avec justesse. Dès son air d’entrée, elle s’impose comme le personnage le plus attachant. Une grande tragédienne dont on admire tout autant la déclamation naturelle des textes parlés. Le dernier acte, à lui seul, suffit à justifier l’ouvrage et l’interprète.

– Forum Opera

Joyce “Triumphs” As Médée in Paris

"Joyce El-Khoury Triumps as Médée in Paris" says La Scena Musicale of Joyce's debut run as Médée in both Paris at the Opéra Comique and with the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie. An exciting role debut for Joyce, these performances

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March 27, 2025

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Damn. This bypassed the intellectual side of my musician brain completely and went straight for the emotional. I was honestly welling up there 💧, even though I don't understand Italian well nor am familiar with this opera. I can't offer a higher compliment or imagine a better performance - wish I could have been there! Also, I don't envy you having to sing while getting up off of your knees after that long, ouch!

Joyce's voice has grown soo much in beauty and emotional content. Simply gorgeous.

Joyce, this is stunning. Brava!!!!

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March 2025

Joyce To Make Role Debut As Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Munich

Joyce El-Khoury’s Médée captivated from first to last, her ‘Vous voyez de vos fils’ mesmerising, shot through with steel. El-Khoury’s acting was of both body and voice…El-Khoury made the opera’s terrifying climax unforgettable.

Inspirée par la mise en scène, la Médée littéralement habitée de Joyce El-Khoury possède une voix aussi large que longue de tragédienne.

Le soprano d’origine libanaise possède une dissociation naturelle des registres vocaux qui n’est pas sans donner du relief aux étrangetés de la magicienne - graves pro-fonds, aigus tranchants comme des lames.

Joyce “Triumphs” As Médée in Paris

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