Joyce El-Khoury

The soprano Joyce El-Khoury was born in Lebanon and grew up in Canada. After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Ottawa, she moved to Philadelphia to study voice at the Academy of Vocal Arts. She also completed the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and attracted attention with several competition successes. Since then, Joyce El-Khoury has performed at renowned stages worldwide. In 2016, she made her debut as Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at London’s Royal Opera House, which also engaged her for the first-ever performance of Donizetti’s opera L’Ange de Nisida and as Musetta (Puccini’s La Bohème). She has also appeared in the latter role at the Bavarian Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Sydney Opera House. Guest appearances have taken her to the Glyndebourne Festival and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto (Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Liù in Puccini’s Turandot), as well as to the opera houses in Philadelphia, Washington, and Seattle and Stuttgart Staatsoper, where she took on the title role in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride. She also participated in the premiere of Liszt’s opera fragment Sardanapalo in Weimar and the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Great Scott in San Diego. Last season, Joyce El-Khoury made her role debuts as Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and as Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (in a concert performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti). She has appeared in Toulouse as Anna in Puccini’s Le Villi, at Dallas Opera as Leila in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles, and in Toronto as Micaëla in Carmen. In concert, Joyce El-Khoury has performed with Elīna Garanča and Juan Diego Flórez, among others, and interpreted the Verdi Requiem under Riccardo Muti. Several CDs document her work, including the two Donizetti rarities Les Martyrs and Belisario and the solo album Écho.

July 2022