Joyce DiDonato
Biography
In all her endeavors, both on and off the stage, Joyce DiDonato engages audiences through her energy, imagination, and commitment to her art form. Through these qualities, and with a constantly questing spirit, she has nurtured the vocal, musical and dramatic talents that have taken her to the pinnacle of her profession as a performer. Equally, they serve her as an eloquent and formidable advocate for the transformative power of the arts as she takes music far beyond the world’s great stages – to educational institutions, refugee camps, and maximum-security prisons. “Music heals,” she has said, “and it can fire people up with purpose and courage to change the world.” The winner of multiple Grammys and the 2018 Olivier Award, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato is, in the words of the New Yorker, “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation”, her voice having been described by The Times as “nothing less than 24-carat gold”. For all its beauty and agility, its true impact lies in Joyce’s capacity to illuminate character and meaning through nuances of colour and phrasing and her unfailingly communicative way with the text.
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Movies (44)
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
as Sister Helen Prejean
2023
Theodora
as Irene
2023
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
as Virginia Woolf
2022
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2022
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
as Self
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
as Agrippina
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
as Self - Host
2019
Massenet: Cendrillon
as Lucette/Cendrillon
2018
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
2018
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
as Herself
2018
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
as Mezzo-soprano
2017
Maria by Callas
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
as Adalgisa
2017
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Dido
2017
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
as Semiramide
2017
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as Herself - Host
2016
Massenet: Werther
as Charlotte
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
2015
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
as Elena
2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
as Self - Host
2015
Bizet: Carmen
as Self - Host
2014
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
as Angelina
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
as Mary Stuart
2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Self - Host
2013
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as Sycorax
2012
Verdi: Ernani
as Self - Host
2012
Gounod: Faust
as Self - Host
2011
Cendrillon
as Cendrillon / Lucette
2011
Le comte Ory
as Isolier (breeches role)
2011
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Cenerentola
as Angelina
2009
The Barber of Seville
as Rosina
2009
Händel - Der Film
as Francesca Cuzzoni
2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Host
2009
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
2008
Rossini La Cenerentola
as Angelina
2008
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Rosina
2007
Hercules - Handel
2004
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2002
