Joyce DiDonato
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 13, 1969 (age 57)
- Birthplace
- Prairie Village, Kansas, USA
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
Maria by Callas
Great Performances
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Don Giovanni
The Barber of Seville
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Photos
Filmography
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia
Movie · as Herself
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Movie · as Sister Helen Prejean
Theodora
Movie · as Irene
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Movie · as Virginia Woolf
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
Movie · as Agrippina
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Movie · as Self
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Movie · as Self - Host
Massenet: Cendrillon
Movie · as Lucette/Cendrillon
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Movie · as Self
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
Movie · as Herself
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
Movie
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
Movie · as Semiramide
Maria by Callas
Movie · as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Movie · as Adalgisa
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Movie · as Dido
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
Movie · as Mezzo-soprano
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie · as Romeo
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Movie · as Florence Foster Jenkins
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Movie · as Herself - Host
Massenet: Werther
Movie · as Charlotte
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Movie · as Elena
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Movie · as Self - Host
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie · as Romeo
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie · as Romeo
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
Movie · as Angelina
Bizet: Carmen
Movie · as Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
Movie · as Mary Stuart
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Movie · as Self - Host
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
Movie · as Sycorax
Verdi: Ernani
Movie · as Self - Host
Le comte Ory
Movie · as Isolier (breeches role)
Cendrillon - Royal Oper House
Movie · as Cendrillon / Lucette
Gounod: Faust
Movie · as Self - Host
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Händel - Der Film
Movie · as Francesca Cuzzoni
The Barber of Seville
Movie · as Rosina
Cenerentola
Movie · as Angelina
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Movie · as Self - Host
Don Giovanni
Movie · as Donna Elvira
Rossini La Cenerentola
Movie · as Angelina
Don Giovanni
Movie · as Donna Elvira
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Movie · as Rosina
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
Movie
Hercules - Handel
Movie
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Movie
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Margaret 'Meg' March · 1 ep