Mezzo "Joy Davidson" ???

[Impact Communications]

Anyone know the Mezzo-soprano, Joy Davidson. I know she did Carmen at NYC
opera several years ago. I played a recital for her in Louisiana in 1982
and would like to find out if she's still singing or where she's located.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.--
ma...@impactcomm.com

[Ed Boxer]

In article <01bc7048$769d2e60$e493...@mark-c.impactcomm.com>, "Impact
Communications" <ma...@impactcomm.com> writes:

Unles I'm mistaken, she sang Adalgisa to Shiley Verrett's Norma with the
Met on Tour in CLeveland in the late 70s/early 80s.
Ed "Boxer" Jones

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[Xise]

Joy Davidson is here in Miami and she is the Director or the New World
School of the Arts.

Regards,
Ximena

[Carmen Z. Catoni]

Impact Communications wrote:
>
> Anyone know the Mezzo-soprano, Joy Davidson. I know she did Carmen at NYC
> opera several years ago. I played a recital for her in Louisiana in 1982
> and would like to find out if she's still singing or where she's located.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.--

> ma...@impactcomm.com

Joy is now in Miami. She is semi-retired and teaching as Assistant to the Dean and Head
of the voice department of the New World School of Arts. During the last year I have
head the pleasure of becoming her friend and she is not only a great singer (I only saw
her once in Carmen in Barcelona 1974 and on TV Werther from Madrid with Kraus in 1978)
but a real lady, much devoted to her work and her students. Occasionaly she has offered
us some character roles in our Florida Grand Opera season (Mamma Lucia, Gertrude in
Romeo et Juliette). I could only wish she would tackle Herosdias or Klitaemnestra, as
she is still in excellent form for that and more. And she is an extraordinary artist.

Should you wish to contact her, write to me privately, giving me all your data, and I
will forward them to her with great pleasure.

HAPPY LISTENING!!!
Luis A. Catoni
cat...@bellsouth.net
Ho da fare un dramma buffo e non trovo l'argomento.

[Dean Giustini]

I heard her when I was about 12 years old here in Calgary. It was the
first time I went to the opera and Ms. Davidson was singing Carmen. It
must have been in 1975. She was an exciting Carmen. Later when I sang in
Carmen in a Vancouver Opera production with Victoria Vergara as Carmen I
was reminded how fine Ms. Davidson's portrayal was - significant given
that was 22 years ago.

[doug.l...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 3, 1997 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Impact Communications wrote:
> Anyone know the Mezzo-soprano, Joy Davidson. I know she did Carmen at NYC
> opera several years ago. I played a recital for her in Louisiana in 1982
> and would like to find out if she's still singing or where she's located.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.--
> ma...@impactcomm.com

In the early 80s I returned to the "Church" and started leading singing. Early on Christmas Day of '82 I moved a piano to the front of the church after having it tuned and had promise from my organist to accompany me for the first Mass 9. During the mass Fr. Cunningham asked me to invite a friend of his to sing. I looked for Iris Frazer, who I did not know, in the small congregation and she agreed. When I returned to my post beside my pianist she inquired where I had been. When I told her what I had been up to and her response is not printable. Iris sang so well that when Kate heard the opening of "What Child Is This", to say she was schock is an understatedment. Iris Frazer became a real gift to me and my musical journey. After mass we shared a coffee with Fr. John and I learned she would return the following March to sing Mercedes in the Edmonton Opera Production of Carmen. Over next three months I listened to many recording of Carmen. I read the libretto and three different biographies of George Bizet. I was very well prepared when March arrived and I was there for opening night and the final night. Joy Davidson was spectacular on all levels but particularly on the last night both as an actor and singer. She had recently had a baby who was back stage for nursing. Our Edmonton audience was very nervous about
her breast falling out of her spanish/gypsy/baredshouldered top. The bright moments were many and intense. They are too many to list here. The most memorable was the conductor's attacca once Don Jose had made up his mind about Carmen and there was no need to waste heading for the finale. The orchestra, chorus and soloists all seemed to by to this sense of urgency needed as they charged toward the tragic end. I have seen it 4 times now and other productions, but none have come close to that experience. This was only the second time I had been to an Opera. When I was 13 years old my took me to hear my older brother Don Laver star in Faust. I still don't know if I have recovered from that experience of him selling his soul to the devil.
And he did leave us and moved with his Margarite east.

[Jordan Davidson]

Hello, thread-

Joy Davidson is my mom. She passed away this Sunday, February 5, 2023. If you have any more stories, photos, recordings, programs, or any memorabilia you'd like to share, please email it to: jordanc...@gmail.com. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.