Joyce DiDonato
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.
Known for
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movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2023
Sister Helen Prejean
movieTheodora
2023
Irene
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2022
Virginia Woolf
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
2019
Self - Host
movieMassenet: Cendrillon
2018
Lucette/Cendrillon
movieMaria by Callas
2017
Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
movieThe Florence Foster Jenkins Story
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2016
Herself - Host
movieMassenet: Werther
2016
Charlotte
movieBizet: Carmen
2014
Self - Host
movieBerlioz: Les Troyens
2013
Self - Host
movieVerdi: Ernani
2012
Self - Host
movieGounod: Faust
2011
Self - Host
movieCendrillon
2011
Cendrillon / Lucette
movieLe comte Ory
2011
Isolier (breeches role)
movieThe Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
2010
Self (archive footage)
Cenerentola
2009
Angelina
movieHändel - Der Film
2009
Francesca Cuzzoni
movieGluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2009
Self - Host
movieDon Giovanni
2008
Donna Elvira
movieRossini La Cenerentola
2008
Angelina
tvGreat Performances
1971
Margaret 'Meg' March