Acting
Joyce DiDonato
DE, EN, IT, FR cinema · 47 credits
Born
13 February 1969 (age 57)
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
Filmography
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
as Sister Helen Prejean
Theodora
as Irene
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
as Virginia Woolf
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
as Self - Host
Massenet: Cendrillon
as Lucette/Cendrillon
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
as Semiramide
Maria by Callas
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
as Adalgisa
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
as Florence Foster Jenkins
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as Herself - Host
Massenet: Werther
as Charlotte
Bizet: Carmen
as Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
as Mary Stuart
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Self - Host
Verdi: Ernani
as Self - Host
Le comte Ory
as Isolier (breeches role)
Cendrillon - Royal Oper House
as Cendrillon / Lucette
Gounod: Faust
as Self - Host
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
as Self (archive footage)
Händel - Der Film
as Francesca Cuzzoni
The Barber of Seville
as Rosina
Cenerentola
2009
Cenerentola
as Angelina
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Host
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
Rossini La Cenerentola
as Angelina
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
