Joyce El-Khoury | |
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 Portrait of Joyce El-Khoury in New York Metropolitan Opera, performing at Tappan Park, Staten Island. | |
| Born | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Alma mater | Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) |
| Occupation | Operatic soprano |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Website | joyceelkhoury |
Joyce El-Khoury is a Lebanese-Canadian opera singer performing with leading opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. She is a soprano praised for her bel canto singing. [1]
El-Khoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Jean and Alex El-Khoury. She has two sisters, Cynthia El-Khoury Najm and Krista Jane El-Khoury – the latter also a singer. [2] She came to Ottawa, Ontario, with her family at the age of six, [3] and began taking private voice lessons at the age of 15 with Karen Spicer. [4] With support from her teacher and parents, she pursued voice at the University of Ottawa under the tutelage of Ingemar Korjus. [5] After graduating her Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the University of Ottawa, she pursued her studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) [6] in Philadelphia while studying with Bill Schuman. El-Khoury was then invited to study at the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program while continuing her studies with Schuman. Her musical mentor and vocal coach is Laurent Philippe, [3] [7] with whom she regularly appears in recital.
During the summer of 2010, El-Khoury was engaged by Lorin Maazel and the Castleton Festival to sing Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and to cover [8] the title role in Suor Angelica . On opening night, she was asked to step in to sing Suor Angelica; this marked the beginning of Maazel's mentorship. She went on to perform Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Beijing, Mimì in Puccini's La bohème , the soprano part of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Munich and her first Desdemona in Verdi's Otello with Maazel. [9]
She sang Mimì in her Australian debut in 2019 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House. [10]
| Year | Role | Composer | Opera | Location |
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| 2009 | Nedda | Ruggiero Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Knoxville Opera |
| 2010 [11] | Frasquita | Georges Bizet | Carmen | Metropolitan Opera |
| 2011 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Knoxville Opera |
| 2012 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Welsh National Opera |
| 2012 | Magda | Giacomo Puccini | La rondine | Des Moines Metro Opera |
| 2012 | Mimì | Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Opera Lyra Ottawa |
| 2012 | Antonina | Gaetano Donizetti | Belisario | Opera Rara |
| 2013 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Palm Beach Opera |
| 2013 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne |
| 2013 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Dutch National Opera |
| 2013 | Desdemona | Giuseppe Verdi | Otello | Castleton Festival |
| 2013 | Mimì | Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Canadian Opera Company |
| 2013 | Musetta | Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Canadian Opera Company |
| 2014 | Rusalka | Antonín Dvořák | Rusalka | North Carolina Opera |
| 2014 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Korea National Opera |
| 2014 | Rusalka | Antonín Dvořák | Rusalka | Concertgebouw |
| 2014 | Micaëla | Georges Bizet | Carmen | Santa Fe Opera |
| 2014 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Lyric Opera of Kansas City |
| 2014 | Pauline | Gaetano Donizetti | Les martyrs | Opera Rara |
| 2015 | Juliette | Charles Gounod | Roméo et Juliette | Austin Opera |
| 2015 | Rosalinde | Johann Strauss | Die Fledermaus | Vancouver Opera |
| 2015 | Emmeline | Tobias Picker | Emmeline | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| 2015 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Savonlinna Opera Festival |
| 2015 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Canadian Opera Company |
| 2015 | Musetta | Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Bayerische Staatsoper |
| 2016 | Tatiana | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | North Carolina Opera |
| 2016 | Maria Stuarda | Gaetano Donizetti | Maria Stuarda | Seattle Opera |
| 2016 | Tatyana Bakst | Jake Heggie | Great Scott | San Diego Opera |
| 2016 | Liú | Giacomo Puccini | Turandot | Opera Philadelphia |
| 2016 | Salomé | Jules Massenet | Hérodiade | Washington Concert Opera |
| 2017 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Royal Opera House |
| 2017 | Leïla | Georges Bizet | Les pêcheurs de perles | Opéra National de Bordeaux |
| 2017 | Violetta Valéry | Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Glyndebourne |
| 2017 | Imogene | Vincenzo Bellini | Il pirata | Opéra National de Bordeaux |
| 2018 | Musetta | Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Teatro Real de Madrid |
| 2018 | Imogene | Vincenzo Bellini | Il pirata | Theater St. Gallen |
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