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Joyce DiDonato
American mezzo-soprano born Joyce Flaherty in Prairie Village, Kansas on
February 13, 1969, Joyce DiDonato has distinguished herself on the world's
greatest opera stages, alongside the growing success of her recorded recitals.
The daughter of an Irish-born architect, she received a Catholic upbringing and
trained as a singer in school shows before entering the University of Wichita,
where from 1988 to 1992 she took lessons to become a professor. Interested in
teaching, she discovered opera with Mozart's Don Giovanni and made her debut in
a production of Johann Strauss II's The Ba...
