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