DiDonato dazzles NCH with an Oriental glow
The New York Philharmonic returned to Ireland after 19 years with an agenda of waltzing Vienna, exotic Orient and Finnish cool. Not a symphony or concerto in sight, as might have been expected, but the strange concoction served up, set the National C
There were many concert highlights, but the centrepiece was always going to be the first appearance in Ireland of celebrated mezzo Joyce DiDonato – and so it proved.
DiDonato is of Irish extraction – “Me father was Flaherty and me mother was McGlinchy,” she self-mockingly informed us in Oirish-speak ...
