
Joyce DiDonato
Known for Acting · 47 credits
- Born
- 1969-02-13 (age 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 – 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.
Known For

Great Performances
1971
as Margaret 'Meg' March

Maria by Callas
2017
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2023
as Sister Helen Prejean

Gounod: Faust
2011
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
2019
as Self - Host

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
as Self
TV Shows (1)
Movies (46)

Maria by Callas
2017
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2023
as Sister Helen Prejean

Gounod: Faust
2011
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
2019
as Self - Host

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
as Self

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2016
as Herself - Host

The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
2016
as Florence Foster Jenkins

Rossini: La Donna del Lago
2015
as Elena

I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2014
as Romeo

The Barber of Seville
2009
as Rosina

The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
2013
as Mary Stuart

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2022
as Virginia Woolf

Berlioz: Les Troyens
2013
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
2020
as Agrippina

The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2022

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015
as Self - Host

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020
as Self
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
2020

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
2017
as Adalgisa
Cenerentola
2009
as Angelina

New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
2018
as Herself

Don Giovanni
2008
as Donna Elvira

Verdi: Ernani
2012
as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
2014
as Angelina

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2016
as Romeo

Massenet: Cendrillon
2018
as Lucette/Cendrillon

Rossini La Cenerentola
2008
as Angelina

The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
2010
as Self (archive footage)

Bizet: Carmen
2014
as Self - Host

Hercules - Handel
2004

Berlioz: Les Troyens
2017
as Dido

Cendrillon
2011
as Cendrillon / Lucette

Händel - Der Film
2009
as Francesca Cuzzoni

The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
2012
as Sycorax

Massenet: Werther
2016
as Charlotte

Theodora
2023
as Irene

In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2018

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2009
as Self - Host

Le comte Ory
2011
as Isolier (breeches role)

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2015
as Romeo

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2007
as Rosina

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
2017
as Semiramide

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
2017
as Mezzo-soprano

Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
2007

Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2002
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia
as Herself
About 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 ma… With 47 credits spanning from 1971 to 2023, Joyce DiDonato has appeared in 46 films and 1 TV show.
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Most Popular Joyce DiDonato Movies
- Maria by Callas (2017) — as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
- The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023) — as Sister Helen Prejean
- Gounod: Faust (2011) — as Self - Host
- The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten (2019) — as Self - Host
- Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018) — as Self
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