Enchanting at the Met this weekend!

Joyce DiDonato

The Enchanted Island received its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera (heard Saturdays at noon on KPAC & KTXI) on New Year’s Eve and runs through the end of this month. It is a pastiche: creative use of leftovers, a "Franken-opera" formed from other operas by Vivaldi & Handel. It stars Joyce DiDonato, David Daniels and Plácido Domingo.

The live HD screening of The Enchanted Island is this Saturday January 21st (locally seen at Cielo Vista 18, Fiesta 16 Theatres, & Cinemark McCreeless Mall) at 11:55am. Joyce DiDonato, Sycorax, is joined by Luca Pisaroni who plays her son, Caliban, to answer a few questions from a class in Utah:

Here is the trailer for The Enchanted Island:
And from the second act of The Enchanted Island with Joyce:

Opera Fury

She's been taking the opera world by storm, from the Met to La Scala, and from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore Hall, Joyce DiDonato is one of the world's great singers and performers. She also makes time to share thoughts and photos on her blog, YankeeDiva.
This January she'll release a new cd, Furore, with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques on Virgin Classics, take a sneak peak:

And tune in for Thursday night at the Opera, with host Ron Moore at 8 pm for the romantic and passionate Werther by Jules Massenet on KPAC and KTXI.