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She also performs Lebanese art song in recitals worldwide, and supports young singers through her teaching initiative Lessons for Lebanon.
Soprano Joyce El-Khoury was born in Lebanon and raised in Canada.
She has appeared on the stages of The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Opéra-Comique, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Dutch National Opera, the Opéra national de Bordeaux, the Opéra national du Capitole (Toulouse), the Welsh National Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, ABAO Bilbao Opera, Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Opéra de Montréal, and the New National Theatre (Tokyo).
In concert, Joyce joins the Berlin Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester for an Italian opera gala, and will appear as a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. In concert she has appeared with the London, Chicago and Houston Symphonies, Orchestre de Paris, Barcelona Symphony, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, in repertory including Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder, Beethoven’s MissaSolemnis, Verdi’s Requiem and Rossini’s StabatMater.
She will reunite with Serouj Kradjian for a recital in Toronto inspired by her Lebanese heritage. She has worked with conductors including Mark Elder, Carlo Rizzi, Riccardo Muti and Lorin Maazel, and has appeared at the Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Madrid, Glyndebourne Festival, Dutch National Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Canadian Opera Company and Dallas Opera.
Joyce El-Khoury
Lebanese-Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury’s recent highlights include role debuts as Norma (Herodes Atticus Theatre, Athens), Médée (Opéra-Comique), Manon Lescaut (Bayerische Staatsoper) and Carmen (Oper im Steinbruch). She returns to Canada for La Reine Garçon at the Opéra de Montréal, then on to the Birgit Nilsson Days Festival to sing Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, and will also make her New National Theatre Tokyo debut in Puccini’s Tosca.
Upcoming seasons include international engagements: Paris, Vienna, Dallas, Rouen and Montpellier.
Born in Lebanon and raised in Canada, soprano Joyce El-Khoury is one of the most captivating artists on the international opera scene.
She has performed over 40 leading roles in prestigious opera houses around the world, including Norma, Médée, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta (Don Carlos), Amelia (Simon Boccanegra), La traviata, Desdemona (Otello), Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Elisabetta (Roberto Devereux), Imogene (Il Pirata), Carmen, Iphigénie en Tauride, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Rusalka, and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), among others.
El-Khoury has collaborated with some of the most prolific conductors in the world, including Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Carlo Rizzi, the late Lorin Maazel, and Riccardo Muti, with whom she debuted as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and in Verdi’s Requiem at Teatro Massimo in Palermo for her Italian debut.
She also makes two debuts in Verdian roles this season, including Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo followed by Amelia in Simon Boccanegra at the Finnish National Opera. She has also appeared in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at Concertgebouw, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, among others.
El-Khoury’s award-winning discography includes Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida, Les martyrs, and Belisario as well as Franz Liszt’s Sardanapalo.
In 2022 she was honored as Dallas Opera’s Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year. Her award-winning discography includes Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida, LesMartyrs and Belisario (Opera Rara) and her solo album Écho (Opera Rara) received a Juno nomination. Her first solo disc, Écho, was nominated for a Juno Award.
The 2022 recipient of the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year from the Dallas Opera, El-Khoury’s recent career highlights include the title roles of Médée at Opéra-Comique in Paris, Carmen at Oper im Steinbruch, as well as Bellini’s Norma at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece.
El-Khoury’s highlighted symphonic appearances include Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester at the Grafenegg Festival, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” with the Orchestre de Paris, Verdi’s Requiem with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as well as performances with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and opening the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra’s season in a gala concert performance.
El-Khoury continues to be a cultural advocate for Lebanon by championing the Lebanese song repertoire in her recitals around the world, as well as offering numerous masterclasses and coaching sessions for young Lebanese singers through her teaching initiative, Lessons for Lebanon.
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To date, she has performed over 30 leading roles in the world’s greatest opera houses.Her 2023–2024 season opens with a production of Liszt’s Sardanapalo at the LisztFest in Budapest.