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.
Acting
Movie
Maria by Callas
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
2017
TV
Great Performances
as Margaret 'Meg' March
1971
Movie
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
2018
Movie
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
as Self - Host
2019
Movie
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
as Elena
2015
Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
as Sister Helen Prejean
2023
Movie
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
2008
Movie
The Barber of Seville
as Rosina
2009
Movie
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018
Movie
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
2016
Movie
Cenerentola
as Angelina
2009
Movie
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
2014
Movie
Le comte Ory
as Isolier (breeches role)
2011
Movie
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Rosina
2007
Movie
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2002
Movie
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
as Self
2020
Movie
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
as Self - Host
2015
Movie
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
as Mezzo-soprano
2017
Movie
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
as Semiramide
2017
Movie
Händel - Der Film
as Francesca Cuzzoni
2009
Movie
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as Sycorax
2012
Movie
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
as Virginia Woolf
2022
Movie
Theodora
as Irene
2023