Joyce DiDonato
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Joyce DiDonato

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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.

Films Featuring Joyce DiDonato

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper

2017

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

20236.5

Don Giovanni

20089.0

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

20167.0

Händel - Der Film

2009

The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche

2012

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

2022

The Barber of Seville

20094.3

Theodora

2023

Cenerentola

Cenerentola

200910.0

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

201410.0

Le comte Ory

201110.0

Cendrillon

2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda

2013

Rossini La Cenerentola

2008

Rossini: La Donna del Lago

20157.8

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

20079.0

The Florence Foster Jenkins Story

20165.6

Massenet: Cendrillon

2018

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

20029.0

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola

20148.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

2016

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

20187.9

New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic

2018

Massenet: Werther

2016

Hercules - Handel

2004

Maria by Callas

20177.3

In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music

20188.0

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

2007

The Metropolitan Opera: Norma

2017

The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina

2020

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

20209.0

Berlioz: Les Troyens

2017

Gounod: Faust

2011

Verdi: Ernani

2012

Berlioz: Les Troyens

2013

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

20155.0

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

20199.0

Bizet: Carmen

2014

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

2015

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017

20177.0

The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre

2010

The Metropolitan Opera: Medea

2022

Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato

Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato

2020

Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia

Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia