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
Semiramide
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
Sister Helen Prejean
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Donna Elvira
Don Giovanni
Romeo
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Cendrillon
The Metropolitan Opera: Cendrillon
Francesca Cuzzoni
Händel - Der Film
Sycorax
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
Virginia Woolf
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Rosina
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Irene
Theodora
Angelina
Cenerentola
Romeo
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Isolier (breeches role)
Le comte Ory
Cendrillon / Lucette
Cendrillon
Mary Stuart
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
Angelina
Rossini La Cenerentola
Elena
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Rosina
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Florence Foster Jenkins
Die Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Lucette/Cendrillon
Massenet: Cendrillon
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Angelina
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
Herself - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Self
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Herself
Silvesterkonzert der Berliner Philharmoniker 2017
Charlotte
Massenet: Werther
Hercules - Handel
Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
Maria by Callas
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
Adalgisa
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Agrippina
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
Self
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Dido
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Self - Host
Gounod: Faust
Self - Host
Verdi: Ernani
Self - Host
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Self - Host
Иоланта/Замок герцога «Синяя борода»
Self - Host
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Self - Host
Bizet: Carmen
Romeo
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Mezzo-soprano
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
Self (archive footage)
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
44
Gender
Female
Birthday
1969-02-13
Place of Birth
Also Known As