Joyce DiDonato
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1969-02-13 (56 years old)
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
Acting
(2023)
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
as Sister Helen Prejean
(2023)
Theodora
as Irene
(2022)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
as Virginia Woolf
(2022)
(2020)
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
as Agrippina
(2020)
(2020)
(2019)
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
as Self - Host
(2018)
Massenet: Cendrillon
as Lucette/Cendrillon
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
(2017)
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
as Adalgisa
(2017)
Maria by Callas
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
(2017)
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
as Semiramide
(2017)
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Dido
(2017)
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
as Mezzo-soprano
(2016)
Massenet: Werther
as Charlotte
(2016)
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
as Florence Foster Jenkins
(2016)
(2016)
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as Herself - Host
(2015)
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
as Self - Host
(2015)
(2015)
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
as Elena
(2014)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
as Angelina
(2014)
Bizet: Carmen
as Self - Host
(2014)
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
(2013)
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Self - Host
(2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
as Mary Stuart
(2012)
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as Sycorax
(2012)
Verdi: Ernani
as Self - Host
(2011)
Le comte Ory
as Isolier (breeches role)
(2011)
Gounod: Faust
as Self - Host
(2011)
Cendrillon
as Cendrillon / Lucette
(2010)
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
Cenerentola
as Angelina
(2009)
Händel - Der Film
as Francesca Cuzzoni
(2009)
The Barber of Seville
as Rosina
(2009)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Host
(2008)
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
(2008)
Rossini La Cenerentola
as Angelina
(2007)
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Rosina
(2004)
(2002)