OperaWire: Best of 2018 List includes Joyce
Wonderful way to close out 2018. Joyce is named on Operawire's 'Best of 2018'. What a fabulous list too - 11 high-powered singers on there! Read the list here.
Coming Soon: First Recording of Liszt’s Long-Lost Opera ‘Sardanapalo’ ft Joyce
Coming soon (Feb 8, 2019): Franz Liszt's long-lost opera, 'Sardanapalo' (audite label) featuring Joyce, Airam Hernandez and Oleksandr Pushniak with the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Kirill Karabits!
Sunday Times: Joyce’s Écho is the ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Hugh Canning chose Joyce's Écho as The Sunday Times' album of the week! Read on here.
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
★★★★ out of ★★★★ for Joyce’s ÉCHO disc
The reviews are coming in for Joyce's ÉCHO (debut solo album by Opera Rara). Presto Classical has highlighted the disc as one to "Thrilling dynamic control allows for a really satisfying exposure of micro-emotions, the mark of a singer who’s on
Opera Rara to release Joyce’s debut CD July 14, 2017
Opera Rara will release Joyce's debut disc, Écho, at a concert featuring Joyce and tenor Michael Spyres on July 14, 2017. The disc will internationally and digitally released in September 2017. Here is a video where Joyce talks a bit
Rehearsing for Debut Solo Album
[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Joyce is in the midst of rehearsing for the recording of her debut solo album with Opera Rara. The disc features The Halle conducted by maestro Carlo Rizzi. There will be one duet on the disc with tenor
El-Khoury’s Pauline: “ease with coloratura”, “fluent in cantilena”, “dramatically on the money”
Joyce El-Khoury, as his wife, Pauline, has a fine, big lyric voice, at ease with the coloratura she’s given, fluent in cantilena, dramatically on-the-money, and capable of the loveliest high pianissimos. The tone is appealingly dusky at times, and the
Planet Hugill: “Joyce El-Khoury brings flexibility, intimate warmth and dramatic commitment”
"Joyce El-Khoury not only sang these beautifully, but used her lovely smoky voice to give dramatic weight to Pauline's more vehement moments. She sings with a pleasantly warm vibrato, which takes her out of the direct line of French coloratura
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