Joyce DiDonato
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Great Performances
Margaret 'Meg' March
1971
Film
Maria by Callas
Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
2017
Film
Massenet: Cendrillon
Lucette/Cendrillon
2018
Film
Gounod: Faust
Self - Host
2011
Film
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Self - Host
2015
Film
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
2018
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Virginia Woolf
2022
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
Mary Stuart
2013
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2022
Film
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Self - Host
2013
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Sister Helen Prejean
2023
Film
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Elena
2015
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Adalgisa
2017
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Self - Host
2019
Film
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Self - Host
2009
Film
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2014
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Herself - Host
2016
Film
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Film
Händel - Der Film
Francesca Cuzzoni
2009
Film
Don Giovanni
Donna Elvira
2008
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2020
Film
Bizet: Carmen
Self - Host
2014
Film
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
Agrippina
2020
Film
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
Sycorax
2012
Film
The Barber of Seville
Rosina
2009
Film
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Verdi: Ernani
Self - Host
2012
Film
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
Herself
2018
Film
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
Semiramide
2017
Film
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
Angelina
2014
Film
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Self
2020
Film
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Dido
2017
Film
Rossini La Cenerentola
Angelina
2008
Cenerentola
Angelina
2009
Film
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2015
Film
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
Mezzo-soprano
2017
Film
Hercules - Handel
2004
Film
Cendrillon
Cendrillon / Lucette
2011
Film
Massenet: Werther
Charlotte
2016
Film
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
2016
Film
Theodora
Irene
2023
Film
Le comte Ory
Isolier (breeches role)
2011
Film
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rosina
2007
Film
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2002
Film
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
2007
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia
Herself