
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)

Bizet: Carmen (2014)
as Self - Host

Massenet: Cendrillon (2018)
as Lucette/Cendrillon

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

Theodora (2023)
as Irene

Cendrillon (2011)
as Cendrillon / Lucette

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

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2014)
as Romeo

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

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola (2014)
as Angelina

Verdi: Ernani (2012)
as Self - Host

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

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2013)
as Self - Host

Händel - Der Film (2009)
as Francesca Cuzzoni

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2017)
as Dido

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

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

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

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

Gounod: Faust (2011)
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma (2017)
as Adalgisa

The Metropolitan Opera: Medea (2022)
Actor

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

Rossini: La Donna del Lago (2015)
as Elena

Don Giovanni (2008)
as Donna Elvira

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)
as Self

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

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2015)
as Romeo
Cenerentola (2009)
as Angelina
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato (2020)
Actor

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

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

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002)
Actor

The Barber of Seville (2009)
as Rosina

Massenet: Werther (2016)
as Charlotte

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007)
as Rosina

The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina (2020)
as Agrippina

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

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper (2017)
as Semiramide

Rossini La Cenerentola (2008)
as Angelina

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (2009)
as Self - Host

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

Hercules - Handel (2004)
Actor

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

Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor (2007)
Actor
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia (—)
as Herself





