Joyce DiDonato
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
- 2023 · Theodora as Irene
- 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours as Virginia Woolf
- 2020 · Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala as Self
- 2020 · The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina as Agrippina
- 2019 · Philip Glass: Akhnaten as Self - Host
- 2018 · Massenet: Cendrillon as Lucette/Cendrillon
- 2018 · Cendrillon [The Metropolitan Opera] as Cendrillon
- 2018 · In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music as
- 2018 · Mister Rogers: It's You I Like as Self
- 2018 · New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic as Herself
- 2017 · 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 · Bellini: Norma as Adalgisa
- 2017 · Berlioz: Les Troyens as Dido
- 2017 · Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper as Semiramide
- 2016 · 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
- 2015 · 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
- 2014 · Bizet: Carmen as Self - Host
- 2014 · I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
- 2014 · The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola as Angelina
- 2013 · The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda as Mary Stuart
- 2013 · Berlioz: Les Troyens as Self - Host
- 2012 · The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche as Sycorax
- 2012 · Verdi: Ernani as Self - Host
- 2011 · Gounod: Faust as Self - Host
- 2011 · Cendrillon as Cendrillon / Lucette
- 2011 · Le comte Ory as Isolier (breeches role)
- 2009 · 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
- 2008 · Don Giovanni as Donna Elvira
- 2008 · Rossini La Cenerentola as Angelina
- 2007 · Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Rosina
- 1971 · Great Performances as Margaret 'Meg' March
- Future · Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor as
- 2004 · Hercules - Handel as
- 2002 · Il Barbiere di Siviglia as