Maria Stuarda: Joyce DiDonato in Rehearsal (Met Opera)

[@theogoldberg8919]

Thanks for the hints into your magic Joyce!!!!! And David McVicar too. Deborah Voigt certainly nails it as interviewer!!!

[@hoodroberts]

Magnificent! Look forward to seeing this in the movie theater.

[@thomasgrass6357]

The wonderful Joyce Didonato. A strong healthy mezzo that is very agil. The success worldwide confirm it.

[@94rome]

Ahhhh Joyce

[@guiradobrasil]

No, I don't, not everyone is so educated in opera as you, unfortunately, I live in Brazil, where we hardly have any operas performed. I love opera and in the past few years I have tried to learn and listen as much as I can. Thank you for sharing here video, I will watch it later.

[@MaestroWenarto]

Debby is a great host!

[@pushunckodiaz4701]

What an excellent interpretation! Brava DiDonato

[@CreuvonVolve]

Looking forward to seeing this production on the HD live transmission, from Brasil! Joyce sure sounds great!

[@biutzaaa]

now seriously... who the f.. would dislike this??

[@guiradobrasil]

Good for you you know perfectly all these treatises, congratulations!!!

[@ilnytska]

Joyce is fantastic!

[@danbarthy3819]

Sensacional! Bella voce,Brava!

[@elisethora16]

That aria is killer!!!! Omg Joyce is fabulous

[@TheSerpentandtheAppl]

What happened is that there are no real teachers anymore. If it wasn't for my 84 year old Russian teacher from the serious Russian and Italian school, I still wouldn't know what I was doing in this country.

[@zava0]

Loooove it!

[@brianarbour1]

Awesome

[@drtslim]

I understand where you're coming from, and it is difficult to categorize voices from that part history. I think that given her repertoire, soprano drammatic d'agilità is probably a more accurate description of her voice, but a very strong case could be made for mezzo soprano as well. I do agree that Ms. Didonato should explore Malibran's roles and that they would fit her voice very well.

[@joaocampelo3725]

Joyce giving 100% at rehearsals ahha ❤️

[@theogoldberg8919]

Cute but she was no 100%.60% top. She didn't gave all the phrasing and mezza di voce etc... that is really 100%. I don't mean volume, I mean shaping and you don't have to shape it all in rehearsal!

[@danawinsor1380]

I wonder how Mary Queen of Scotts came to be known with that title, instead of Mary Queen of Scotland, or Queen Mary of Scotland.

[@drtslim]

Maria Malibran was a mezzo soprano as well.

[@guiradobrasil]

Ok, now I get it, lei sei italiano... this explains it all...

[@lindsaydenman1835]

Is that Brenda Rae behind Joyce? I know they were in Agrippina together...

[@LohengrinTh]

Technically flawless - she has mastered a supreme technical level of singing

[@BellaFirenze]

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

[@MrWilliammreed]

I wonder if DiDonato is only singing here due tot he camera action. I would love to know if she marks for most of her rehearsals.

[@harvinsky]

Joyce DiDonato looks 'brillian'. She's got more beautiful. Ha, McVicar. I didn't think he's got so old.

[@mavoisine3]

Forget Didonato, who is the hot tall guy in 2:24? :)

[@pugh.joseph]

There is no "hot tall guy" there, can you please reiterate what you mean?

[@mavoisine3]

@@pugh.joseph 3:58 . The bald guy

[@pugh.joseph]

@@mavoisine3 That is David McVicar who is a Scottish Opera director, why?

[@webusch3]

Snap! In more ways than 1

[@Tkimba2]

Che livello...

[@guiradobrasil]

Yes, Cecilia Bartoli has made it up and made no research, give me a break, if you hate her, OK, but don't say silly things, please, spare us.

[@guiradobrasil]

Giovanna who? And you are... Orpheus?

[@christopherrobinwattsthoma6318]

🤣🤣🤣😱

[@ternitamas]

she has a pitchy vibrato basically a tremolo in the high notes very annoying to the ears

[@SilverSingingMethod]

What happened to great opera voices? She has no chest, fluttery vibrato, no core/voce squillante, it is tiny, the fioratura is like two chipmunks barking at each other. Sad.

[@Beadle_Bamford]

Not as sad as your comment

[@mokemohaveer1]

Is it just me, or do Joyce and Debby not seem to like one another too verily? Their body language, at least, agrees with my idea: how very tense their embrace, how very deliberate their 'enthusiasm' in greeting, how pretentious that "brava"... I remember Miss DiDonato has talked about the inauthenticity in interpersonal handlings in the great operatic atmosphere.

[@Eiswirth1]

It's just you. I didn't feel their connection was the least bit inauthentic. BTW, I don't think anyone has ever sung Maria Stuarda better than Joan Sutherland in the early 70s, but I also love Joyce's take on the role. Fascinating to hear a mezzo tackle a part I've always associated with sopranos.

[@debbiewoodburn6786]

@@Eiswirth1 I must admit, I was taken aback that she didn't mention Joan Sutherland at the same time as Caballe and Sills, particularly as she was singing "Nella pace" - an aria in which Joan Sutherland was truly extraordinary.