
Person
Joyce DiDonato
Acting · Born 1969-02-13
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
Margaret 'Meg' March

Bizet: Carmen
Self - Host

Maria by Callas
Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)

Massenet: Cendrillon
Lucette/Cendrillon

Theodora
Irene

Cendrillon
Cendrillon / Lucette

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Self - Host

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo

I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo

Händel - Der Film
Francesca Cuzzoni
Filmography
- 2023The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man WalkingSister Helen Prejean
- 2023TheodoraIrene
- 2022The Metropolitan Opera: The HoursVirginia Woolf
- 2022The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
- 2020Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
- 2020Metropolitan Opera At Home GalaSelf
- 2020The Metropolitan Opera: AgrippinaAgrippina
- 2019The Metropolitan Opera: AkhnatenSelf - Host
- 2018Massenet: CendrillonLucette/Cendrillon
- 2018In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
- 2018Mister Rogers: It's You I LikeSelf
- 2018New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin PhilharmonicHerself
- 2017The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017Mezzo-soprano
- 2017Maria by CallasSelf - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
- 2017The Metropolitan Opera: NormaAdalgisa
- 2017Berlioz: Les TroyensDido
- 2017Semiramide - Bayerische StaatsoperSemiramide
- 2016The Florence Foster Jenkins StoryFlorence Foster Jenkins
- 2016The Metropolitan Opera: Don GiovanniHerself - Host
- 2016Massenet: WertherCharlotte
- 2016Bellini: I Capuleti e i MontecchiRomeo
- 2015Bellini: I Capuleti e i MontecchiRomeo
- 2015Rossini: La Donna del LagoElena
- 2015Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's CastleSelf - Host
- 2014Bizet: CarmenSelf - Host
- 2014I Capuleti e i MontecchiRomeo
- 2014The Metropolitan Opera: La CenerentolaAngelina
- 2013The Metropolitan Opera: Maria StuardaMary Stuart
- 2013Berlioz: Les TroyensSelf - Host
- 2012The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pasticheSycorax
- 2012Verdi: ErnaniSelf - Host
- 2011Gounod: FaustSelf - Host
- 2011CendrillonCendrillon / Lucette
- 2011Le comte OryIsolier (breeches role)
- 2010The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatreSelf (archive footage)
- 2009CenerentolaAngelina
- 2009The Barber of SevilleRosina
- 2009Händel - Der FilmFrancesca Cuzzoni
- 2009Gluck: Orfeo ed EuridiceSelf - Host
- 2008Don GiovanniDonna Elvira
- 2008Rossini La CenerentolaAngelina
- 2007Rossini: Il Barbiere di SivigliaRosina
- 2007Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
- 2004Hercules - Handel
- 2002Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- 1971Great PerformancesMargaret 'Meg' March
- —Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in OlympiaHerself
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