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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1044 |
| Birthday | 1969-02-13 |
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2017
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
0/0
Queen Semiramide is haunted by the ghosts of her past. Together with her lover Assur, she once murdered her husband King Nino; a deed which ever since...
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Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
6.5/2
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2008
Don Giovanni
9/2
DON GIOVANNI is one of the timeless classics of all opera. Mozart’s music, and the words of his great collaborator Da Ponte, are brought to life in Fr...
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Don Giovanni
2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
7/1
Bellini - i Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2009
Händel - Der Film
0/0
Handel (1685-1759) is the first "pop titan" in history. His hits such as the "Hallelujah", the "Sarabande" or the coronation chorus "Zadok the priest"...
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Händel - Der Film
2012
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
0/0
A contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensemble...
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The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
2022
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
0/0
Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hour...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2009
The Barber of Seville
4.2/2
23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly – legend has it in just 13 days – which Rossini att...
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The Barber of Seville
2023
Theodora
0/0
Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new production of Handel’s Theodora in an alternative modern...
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Theodora
2009
Cenerentola
10/1
Cenerentola (Joyce DiDonato) is the stepdaughter of Don Magnifico but is treated as a servant in his household. As she sweeps the floor and obeys ever...
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Cenerentola
2014
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
10/1
Bellini's radiant retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a beacon in the bel canto tradition. San Francisco Opera's co-production features two...
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I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2011
Le comte Ory
10/1
Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a hermit and then as a nun in order to ga...
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Le comte Ory
2011
Cendrillon
0/0
Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity...
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Cendrillon
2013
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
0/0
Joyce DiDonato gives a sensational performance as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto drama, opposite Elza van den Heever as Queen Elizabet...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
2008
Rossini La Cenerentola
0/0
This is an excellent version of one of the greatest of all comic operas, featuring superb singing and orchestral playing. And it's not just the two he...
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Rossini La Cenerentola
2015
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
7.8/3
An all-star cast assembled for the Met’s first-ever performances of Rossini’s romantic retelling of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem The Lady of the Lake....
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Rossini: La Donna del Lago
2007
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
9/1
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer to the...
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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2016
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
5.6/5
Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet she is a cult figure whose recordings still outsell many contemporary sing...
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The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
2018
Massenet: Cendrillon
0/0
The 2017–18 Live in HD season concluded with an enchanted performance of Cendrillon, Massenet’s glittering operatic adaptation of the Cinderella story...
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Massenet: Cendrillon
2002
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
9/1
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2014
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
8/0
Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story features a brilliant cast, led by bel canto stars Joyce DiDonato in the title role and Juan Diego Flór...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
0/0
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Juan, creating a vivid portrait of a man who is a law...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
7.9/8
Join host Michael Keaton to celebrate "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," the pioneering children's series that premiered nationally 50 years ago. Celebrit...
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Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
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New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
2016
Massenet: Werther
0/0
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther s...
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Massenet: Werther
2004
Hercules - Handel
0/0
William Christie, the master of Baroque music, and stage producer Luc Bondy join forces in Paris to give Handel's masterwork a new lease of life.
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Hercules - Handel
2017
Maria by Callas
7.3/43
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an...
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Maria by Callas
2018
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
8/2
Recorded live in June 2017 at the magnificent Liceu Theatre in Barcelona, this DVD is the companion to Joyce DiDonato’s award-winning album In War and...
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In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
2007
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
0/0
John Nelson conducting the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Accentus Chamber Choir.
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Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
0/0
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scorned by the Roman proconsul Pollione, with whom she...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
0/0
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Si...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
9/1
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unp...
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2017
Berlioz: Les Troyens
0/0
This release from Erato consists of highlights from the live concert of April 15, 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
2011
Gounod: Faust
0/0
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD presentation of Des McAnuff’s thrilling 201...
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Gounod: Faust
2012
Verdi: Ernani
0/0
Rising Met star Angela Meade is Elvira, the young woman caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turned-outlaw Ernani (Marcello Giordani); he...
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Verdi: Ernani
2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
0/0
Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in hi...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
5/1
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess o...
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
0/0
Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal story from its ancient Greek roots to the timeless pre...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2019
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
9/4
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influe...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
2014
Bizet: Carmen
0/0
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Anto...
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Bizet: Carmen
2015
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
0/0
The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres e...
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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2017
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
7/1
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the B...
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
2010
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
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The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
2022
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
0/0
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothi...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
2020
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
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In mid-March 2020, as the Met made the difficult decision to cancel performances due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato...
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Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia
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