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 – 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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Maria by Callas (2017) — Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
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Great Performances (1971) — Margaret 'Meg' March
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Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018) — Self
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The Florence Foster Jenkins Story (2016) — Florence Foster Jenkins
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The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten (2019) — Self - Host
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Rossini: La Donna del Lago (2015) — Elena
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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023) — Sister Helen Prejean
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Don Giovanni (2008) — Donna Elvira
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The Barber of Seville (2009) — Rosina
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In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music (2018)
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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2016) — Romeo
- Cenerentola (2009) — Angelina
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I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2014) — Romeo
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Le comte Ory (2011) — Isolier (breeches role)
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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007) — Rosina
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2002)
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020) — Self
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015) — Self - Host
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017 (2017) — Mezzo-soprano
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Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper (2017) — Semiramide
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Händel - Der Film (2009) — Francesca Cuzzoni
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The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche (2012) — Sycorax
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours (2022) — Virginia Woolf
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Theodora (2023) — Irene
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Cendrillon (2011) — Cendrillon / Lucette
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The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda (2013) — Mary Stuart
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Rossini La Cenerentola (2008) — Angelina
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Massenet: Cendrillon (2018) — Lucette/Cendrillon
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola (2014) — Angelina
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2016) — Herself - Host
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New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic (2018) — Herself
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Massenet: Werther (2016) — Charlotte
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Hercules - Handel (2004)
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Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor (2007)
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The Metropolitan Opera: Norma (2017) — Adalgisa
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The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina (2020) — Agrippina
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Berlioz: Les Troyens (2017) — Dido
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Gounod: Faust (2011) — Self - Host
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Verdi: Ernani (2012) — Self - Host
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Berlioz: Les Troyens (2013) — Self - Host