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Joyce DiDonato
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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.”
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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.
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Joyce DiDonato's Filmography
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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
as Sister Helen Prejean
Theodora
as Irene
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
as Virginia Woolf
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea
No Poster
Met Stars: Joyce DiDonato
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
as Self
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
as Agrippina
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
as Self - Host
Massenet: Cendrillon
as Lucette/Cendrillon
In War and Peace - Harmony Through Music
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
as Herself
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
as Mezzo-soprano
Maria by Callas
as Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
as Adalgisa
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Dido
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
as Semiramide
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
as Florence Foster Jenkins
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as Herself - Host
Massenet: Werther
as Charlotte
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
as Elena
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
as Self - Host
Bizet: Carmen
as Self - Host
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
as Romeo
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
as Angelina
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
as Mary Stuart
Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Self - Host
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as Sycorax
Verdi: Ernani
as Self - Host
Gounod: Faust
as Self - Host
Cendrillon - Royal Oper House
as Cendrillon / Lucette
Le comte Ory
as Isolier (breeches role)
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Cenerentola
as Angelina
The Barber of Seville
as Rosina
Händel - Der Film
as Francesca Cuzzoni
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Host
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
Rossini La Cenerentola
as Angelina
Don Giovanni
as Donna Elvira
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Rosina
Bach in Notre-Dame de Paris - Mass In B Minor
Hercules - Handel
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
No Poster
Eden – Joyce DiDonato singt in Olympia
as Herself