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Joyce DiDonato
Actor

Joyce DiDonato

13 Feb 1969Born
57Age

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.

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“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

Filmography

  1. 2023The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man WalkingFilm: Sister Helen Prejean
  2. 2023TheodoraFilm: Irene
  3. 2022The Metropolitan Opera: The HoursFilm: Virginia Woolf
  4. 2022The Metropolitan Opera: MedeaFilm
  5. 2020Met Stars: Joyce DiDonatoFilm
  6. 2020The Metropolitan Opera: AgrippinaFilm: Agrippina
  7. 2018Massenet: CendrillonFilm: Lucette/Cendrillon
  8. 2018In War and Peace - Harmony Through MusicFilm
  9. 2017The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017Film: Mezzo-soprano
  10. 2017The Metropolitan Opera: NormaFilm: Adalgisa
  11. 2017Berlioz: Les TroyensFilm: Dido
  12. 2017Semiramide - Bayerische StaatsoperFilm: Semiramide
  13. 2016The Florence Foster Jenkins StoryFilm: Florence Foster Jenkins
  14. 2016Massenet: WertherFilm: Charlotte
  15. 2016Bellini: I Capuleti e i MontecchiFilm: Romeo
  16. 2015I Capuleti e i MontecchiFilm: Romeo
  17. 2015Rossini: La Donna del LagoFilm: Elena
  18. 2014I Capuleti e i MontecchiFilm: Romeo
  19. 2014The Metropolitan Opera: La CenerentolaFilm: Angelina
  20. 2013The Metropolitan Opera: Maria StuardaFilm: Mary Stuart
  21. 2012The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pasticheFilm: Sycorax
  22. 2011Cendrillon - Royal Oper HouseFilm: Cendrillon / Lucette
  23. 2011Le comte OryFilm: Isolier (breeches role)
  24. 2009CenerentolaFilm: Angelina
  25. 2009The Barber of SevilleFilm: Rosina
  26. 2009Händel - Der FilmFilm: Francesca Cuzzoni
  27. 2008Don GiovanniFilm: Donna Elvira
  28. 2008Rossini La CenerentolaFilm: Angelina
  29. 2008Don GiovanniFilm: Donna Elvira
  30. 2007Rossini: Il Barbiere di SivigliaFilm: Rosina
  31. 2007Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B MinorFilm
  32. 2004Hercules - HandelFilm
  33. 2002Il Barbiere di SivigliaFilm
  34. 1971Great PerformancesSeries: Margaret 'Meg' March (1 episode)

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