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
- Theodora as Irene
- The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
2022
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours as Virginia Woolf
- The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2020
- Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
- Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala as Self
- The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina as Agrippina
2019
- The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten as Self - Host
2018
- Mister Rogers: It's You I Like as Self
- Massenet: Cendrillon as Lucette/Cendrillon
- New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic as Herself
- In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
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
- Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
- The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni as Herself - Host
- The Florence Foster Jenkins Story as Florence Foster Jenkins
- Massenet: Werther as Charlotte
2015
- Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle as Self - Host
- Rossini: La Donna del Lago as Elena
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
2014
- Bizet: Carmen as Self - Host
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Romeo
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola as Angelina
2013
- The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda as Mary Stuart
- Berlioz: Les Troyens as Self - Host
2012
- The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche as Sycorax
- Verdi: Ernani as Self - Host
2011
- Cendrillon - Royal Oper House as Cendrillon / Lucette
- Gounod: Faust as Self - Host
- Le comte Ory as Isolier (breeches role)
2010
- The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice as Self - Host
- The Barber of Seville as Rosina
- Händel - Der Film as Francesca Cuzzoni
- Cenerentola as Angelina
2008
- Don Giovanni as Donna Elvira
- Rossini La Cenerentola as Angelina
- Don Giovanni as Donna Elvira
2004
1978
1971
- Great Performances as Margaret 'Meg' March