Performer: Joyce El-Khoury
Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Opera Rara
Catalogue: ORR252
Release: 2017
Size: 658 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
01. Scena e Cavatina ‘Regnava nel silenzio’
Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
02. Cavatine ‘Robert, toi que j’aime’
Weber: Der Freischütz
03. Scène et Air ‘Hélas! sans le revoir’
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
04. Récitatif et Romance ‘Ils s’éloignent enfin’
Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
05. Romance ‘Va, dit-elle, va, mon enfant’
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
06. Scena e Duetto Finale ‘Lucia, perdona…’
Hérold: Le Pré Aux Clercs
07. Entr’acte et Air ‘Jours de mon enfance’
Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
08. Couplets ‘Quand je quittai la Normandie’
Halévy: La Juive
09. Air ‘Assez longtemps la crainte et la tristesse’
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
10. Récitatif et Air ‘Les belles fleurs’
Born in the Lebanon and brought up in Canada, Joyce El-Khoury studied in Ottawa and Philadelphia, before graduating from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development programme. Today she is one of the brightest young stars in the opera world, recently receiving universal acclaim for her landmark performance of Violetta in La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As well as singing extensively in America, she appears widely in opera and concert throughout Europe, including the Bayerishe Staatsoper. She returns to Covent Garden in 2018, but before then will star in Glyndebourne and Madrid, as well as singing extensively in concert.
Joyce has starred in two Opera Rara recordings to date: Donizetti’s Belisario and the award-winning recording of Les Martyrs. Joyce’s album Écho features music associated with the great 19th century soprano Julie Dorus-Gras, including arias by Berlioz, Donizetti, Meyerbeer and Weber. She also duets with her co-star from Les Martyrs, Michael Spyres, whose own recital disc is also released in September 2017, and is available from Opera Rara exclusively from 14th July 2017.