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