LONDON (Reuters) - Even with one of the world's most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino ...

Jacopo Spirei’s production, with design by Madeleine Boyd, has just one basic set: it changes from Act One to Act Two by removing two evocative visual elements (a hearth and a panel of generally ...

In the midst of a big New York year for the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato comes her rendition of the title role in “La Donna del Lago,” a Rossini masterpiece based on the ur-Romantic Walter Scott poem, ...

Joyce DiDonato reprises her stunning portrayal of the “lady of the lake” in Rossini’s dazzling bel canto showcase set in the medieval Scottish highlands. Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is the king who ...

John Fulljames’ new production of Rossini’s La donna del lago, an opera that has not been seen at Covent Garden for 28 years, illustrates how countries can sanitise their history. Since Sir Walter ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Rossini’s exceedingly lovely “La Donna del Lago” has made a belated entry into the annals of the Met, and, with such singers as Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Daniela Barcellona ...