Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato to Return to Carnegie Hall for Public Master Classes

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for her popular series of master classes for young professional opera singers from Sunday, April 19 through Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Soprano Ronnie Enoch, mezzo-sopranos Natalie Corrigan and Fangzhen Wang, and baritone Will (June Young) Kim have been selected to participate in this year’s set of master classes. Collaborative pianists Joel Harder and Bin Yu Sanford accompany the singers and provide additional coaching and support during the week.

In addition to being open to the public, the master classes will be streamed live for opera lovers everywhere on Carnegie Hall’s YouTube channel and medici.tv. Additional private sessions are planned for the participants on topics including breath control, audition tips, and career management.  

About Joyce DiDonato

Grammy- and Olivier Award winner Joyce DiDonato has been called “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. She has towered to the top of the industry as a performer, producer, and fierce advocate for the arts. With a repertoire that spans more than four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, as well as industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.

DiDonato’s 2025–26 season began with opening concerts for both the Minnesota Orchestra and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ House of Tomorrow. She also returned to Musikkollegium Winterthur for performances of Rachel Portman’s Another Eve and collaborated with Radio France for Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. She recently embarked on her first major tour of Australasia with the Melbourne, Tasmanian, and New Zealand symphony orchestras. In the United States, she made her Lincoln Center Theater stage debut as Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and makes her much-anticipated role debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Saariaho’s Innocence this spring. DiDonato’s concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Nézet-Séguin and the Berliner Philharmoniker. She also reunites with pianist Craig Terry for recitals at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. In May 2026, DiDonato joins other leading artists from around the globe for Carnegie Hall’s 50th Anniversary of the Concert of the Century, a one-night gala event honoring the starry night organized 50 years ago by Isaac Stern.

As her latest project, EDEN, completed a ground-breaking three years of global touring, the anticipation built for DiDonato’s next album release and touring project. A newly commissioned song cycle written by Kevin Puts for DiDonato and the Grammy Award-winning string trio Time for Three, featuring the poetry of Emily Dickinson, had its world premiere at Bregenzer Festspiele in August 2025, and further performances happened across the US including in Kansas City, Chicago, and Carnegie Hall.

DiDonato has worked with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in a variety of facets including as a featured musician on the Lullaby Project’s Hopes & Dreams album, a guest artist with Musical Connections, and on tour with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America.