Joyce DiDonato
Born
February 13, 1969 (56 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Sister Helen Prejean
2023
Theodora
Irene
2023
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Virginia Woolf
2022
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2022
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Self
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
Agrippina
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Self - Host
2019
The Metropolitan Opera: Cendrillon
Cendrillon
2018
Massenet: Cendrillon
Lucette/Cendrillon
2018
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
2018
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
Herself
2018
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
Mezzo-soprano
2017
Maria by Callas
Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Adalgisa
2017
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Dido
2017
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
Semiramide
2017
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Herself - Host
2016
Massenet: Werther
Charlotte
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2015
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Elena
2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Self - Host
2015
Bizet: Carmen
Self - Host
2014
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
Angelina
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
Mary Stuart
2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Self - Host
2013
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
Sycorax
2012
Verdi: Ernani
Self - Host
2012
Gounod: Faust
Self - Host
2011
Cendrillon
Cendrillon / Lucette
2011
Le comte Ory
Isolier (breeches role)
2011
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
Self (archive footage)
2010
Cenerentola
Angelina
2009
The Barber of Seville
Rosina
2009
Händel - Der Film
Francesca Cuzzoni
2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Self - Host
2009
Don Giovanni
Donna Elvira
2008
Rossini La Cenerentola
Angelina
2008
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rosina
2007
Hercules - Handel
2004
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2002
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
Great Performances
Margaret 'Meg' March · (1 episode)
1971