Published: 02 December 2011
Category: Vocal & Opera

Joyce DiDonato’s album Divo, Diva is included in the Best Classical Solo Album division. Released to broad critical praise, the disc was described in the Guardian as “an ideal vehicle for her glorious mezzo voice in which the most fiendish coloratura ornaments and trills sound effortless.”  The nomination is just the latest praise for a disc that has earned accolades far and wide.

Click here to watch a short film about Joyce DiDonato recording Diva, Divo for Virgin Classics.

Joyce also receives a nomination as part of the Europa Galante release, Vivaldi: Ercole Sul Termodonte, chosen within the Best Opera Recording category. Intermusica artists Iain Paterson and Jacques Imbrailo are also found in this category, as part of the cast of the Glyndebourne production of Billy Budd, released on Opus Arte DVD and conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

Elsewhere, Marek Janowski received a nomination in the Best Orchestral Performance category for his recording of Henze’s Symphonies Nos. 3-5 with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Giancarlo Guerrero appears in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, for his conducting of the Nashville Symphony in a recording of Schwanter’s percussion concerto Chasing Light featuring soloist Christopher Lamb.

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