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Let me start with the star of the evening: Joyce El-Khoury. She began learning the role only a few weeks ago, after the announcement of Marina Rebeka’s withdrawal. And let me tell you—learning such a massive role in just fifteen days is no easy feat, especially in a grand opera like Les Vêpres, which lasts over 3 hours and where Hélène’s part is both central and relentless! The challenge must have been immense, but she pulled it off. She embraced the role, delivered magnificent love duets, and crowned it all with a soaring, breathtaking final aria.

– Opera Diary

Latest Interview: Joyce speaks to The New York Times about debuting Hélène in Royal Opera’s Les Vêpres Siciliennes

Joyce is featured in The New York Times for her role debut as Hélène in Verdi's Les Vêpres Sicciliennes at The Royal Ballet And Opera. In her own words, "There are high notes, loud notes, high piano, low chest tones

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September 13, 2025

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Joyce To Make Role Debut As Hélène in Les vêpres siciliennes at Royal Opera & Ballet in London

Today, the Royal Opera & Ballet in London has announced a cast change for its production of Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes. Joyce El-Khoury will be stepping in at short notice to perform Hélène, marking her debut in the role. Speranza Scappucci

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August 26, 2025

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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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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

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