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