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.

Known For

Great Performances

Maria by Callas

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

Massenet: Cendrillon

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Don Giovanni

Bizet: Carmen

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

All Movies (46)

• The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking2023 · as Sister Helen Prejean
• Theodora2023 · as Irene
• The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours2022 · as Virginia Woolf
• The Metropolitan Opera: Medea2022
• Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato2020
• Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala2020 · as Self
• The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina2020 · as Agrippina
• The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten2019 · as Self - Host
• Massenet: Cendrillon2018 · as Lucette/Cendrillon
• In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music2018
• Mister Rogers: It's You I Like2018 · as Self
• New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic2018 · as Herself
• The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 20172017 · as Mezzo-soprano
• Maria by Callas2017 · as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
• The Metropolitan Opera: Norma2017 · as Adalgisa
• Berlioz: Les Troyens2017 · as Dido
• Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper2017 · as Semiramide
• The Florence Foster Jenkins Story2016 · as Florence Foster Jenkins
• The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni2016 · as Herself - Host
• Massenet: Werther2016 · as Charlotte
• Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi2016 · as Romeo
• Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi2015 · as Romeo
• Rossini: La Donna del Lago2015 · as Elena
• Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle2015 · as Self - Host
• Bizet: Carmen2014 · as Self - Host
• I Capuleti e i Montecchi2014 · as Romeo
• The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola2014 · as Angelina
• The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda2013 · as Mary Stuart
• Berlioz: Les Troyens2013 · as Self - Host
• The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche2012 · as Sycorax
• Verdi: Ernani2012 · as Self - Host
• Gounod: Faust2011 · as Self - Host
• Cendrillon2011 · as Cendrillon / Lucette
• Le comte Ory2011 · as Isolier (breeches role)
• The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cenerentola2009 · as Angelina
• The Barber of Seville2009 · as Rosina
• Händel - Der Film2009 · as Francesca Cuzzoni
• Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice2009 · as Self - Host
• Don Giovanni2008 · as Donna Elvira
• Rossini La Cenerentola2008 · as Angelina
• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia2007 · as Rosina
• Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor2007
• Hercules - Handel2004
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia2002
• Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia— · as Herself

All TV Shows (1)

• Great Performances1971 · as Margaret 'Meg' March