
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

Bizet: Carmen (2014)
as Self - Host

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

Massenet: Cendrillon (2018)
as Lucette/Cendrillon

Cendrillon (2011)
as Cendrillon / Lucette

Don Giovanni (2008)
as Donna Elvira

Theodora (2023)
as Irene

Gounod: Faust (2011)
as Self - Host

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma (2017)
as Adalgisa

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

Rossini: La Donna del Lago (2015)
as Elena

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

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2013)
as Self - Host

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

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola (2014)
as Angelina

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

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

Verdi: Ernani (2012)
as Self - Host
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato (2020)
Actor

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2014)
as Romeo

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina (2020)
as Agrippina

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

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2015)
as Romeo

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

Hercules - Handel (2004)
Actor

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

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

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2017)
as Dido

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

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007)
as Rosina

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

Händel - Der Film (2009)
as Francesca Cuzzoni

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Medea (2022)
Actor

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

The Barber of Seville (2009)
as Rosina
Cenerentola (2009)
as Angelina

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)
as Self

Rossini La Cenerentola (2008)
as Angelina

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper (2017)
as Semiramide

Massenet: Werther (2016)
as Charlotte

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

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002)
Actor

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





