
Joyce DiDonato
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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
Credits

Maria by Callas (2017)
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015)
as Self - Host

Bizet: Carmen (2014)
as Self - Host

Massenet: Cendrillon (2018)
as Lucette/Cendrillon

Theodora (2023)
as Irene
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato (2020)
Actor

Cendrillon - Royal Oper House (2011)
as Cendrillon / Lucette

Don Giovanni (2008)
as Donna Elvira

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten (2019)
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola (2014)
as Angelina

Rossini: La Donna del Lago (2015)
as Elena

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2013)
as Self - Host

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2015)
as Romeo

New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic (2018)
as Herself

Händel - Der Film (2009)
as Francesca Cuzzoni

The Florence Foster Jenkins Story (2016)
as Florence Foster Jenkins

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2014)
as Romeo

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)
as Self

The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre (2010)
as Self (archive footage)

The Metropolitan Opera: Medea (2022)
Actor

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours (2022)
as Virginia Woolf

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma (2017)
as Adalgisa

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018)
as Self

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007)
as Rosina

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2016)
as Romeo

The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda (2013)
as Mary Stuart

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2016)
as Herself - Host

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2017)
as Dido

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)
as Sister Helen Prejean

The Barber of Seville (2009)
as Rosina

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (2009)
as Self - Host
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia (—)
as Herself

In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music (2018)
Actor

The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina (2020)
as Agrippina

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017 (2017)
as Mezzo-soprano

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002)
Actor

The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche (2012)
as Sycorax

Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor (2007)
Actor

Gounod: Faust (2011)
as Self - Host

Massenet: Werther (2016)
as Charlotte

Le comte Ory (2011)
as Isolier (breeches role)

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper (2017)
as Semiramide

Rossini La Cenerentola (2008)
as Angelina

Hercules - Handel (2004)
Actor

Don Giovanni (2008)
as Donna Elvira
Cenerentola (2009)
as Angelina

Verdi: Ernani (2012)
as Self - Host




