Joyce DiDonato
Born
13 February 1969 (57)
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 – t...
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 (40)
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2023
Theodora
2023
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2022
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2022
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
2019
Massenet: Cendrillon
2018
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
2018
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
2017
Maria by Callas
2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
2017
Berlioz: Les Troyens
2017
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
2017
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2016
Massenet: Werther
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2015
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015
Bizet: Carmen
2014
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
2013
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
2012
Verdi: Ernani
2012
Gounod: Faust
2011
Cendrillon
2011
Le comte Ory
2011
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
2010
Cenerentola
2009
The Barber of Seville
2009
Händel - Der Film
2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2009
Don Giovanni
2008