Joyce DiDonato
Born: 1969-02-13
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
- Theodora as Irene
2022
- The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours as Virginia Woolf
2020
- The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina as Agrippina
- Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala as Self
- Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2019
- The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten as Self - Host
2018
- Massenet: Cendrillon as Lucette/Cendrillon
- Mister Rogers: It's You I Like as Self
- In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
- New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic as Herself
2017
- Maria by Callas as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
- The Metropolitan Opera: Norma as Adalgisa
- Berlioz: Les Troyens as Dido
- The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017 as Mezzo-soprano
- Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper as Semiramide
2016
- The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni as Herself - Host
- Massenet: Werther as Charlotte
- The Florence Foster Jenkins Story as Florence Foster Jenkins
- Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
2015
- Rossini: La Donna del Lago as Elena
- Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle as Self - Host
- Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
2014
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola as Angelina
- Bizet: Carmen as Self - Host
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
2013
- The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda as Mary Stuart
- Berlioz: Les Troyens as Self - Host
2012
- Verdi: Ernani as Self - Host
- The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche as Sycorax
2011
- Gounod: Faust as Self - Host
- Cendrillon as Cendrillon / Lucette
- Le comte Ory as Isolier (breeches role)
2010
- The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre as Self (archive footage)
2009
- The Barber of Seville as Rosina
- Cenerentola as Angelina
- Händel - Der Film as Francesca Cuzzoni
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice as Self - Host
2008
- Don Giovanni as Donna Elvira
- Rossini La Cenerentola as Angelina
2004
1971
- Great Performances as Margaret 'Meg' March