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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 wit…
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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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2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Movie Sister Helen Prejean
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2023
Theodora
Movie Irene
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2022
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Movie Virginia Woolf
- 2022
- 2020
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2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Movie Self
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2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
Movie Agrippina
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2019
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Movie Self - Host
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2018
Massenet: Cendrillon
Movie Lucette/Cendrillon
- 2018
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2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Movie Self
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2018
New year's Eve Concert 2017: Berlin Philharmonic
Movie Herself
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2017
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2017
Movie Mezzo-soprano
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2017
Maria by Callas
Movie Self - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
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2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Movie Adalgisa
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2017
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Movie Dido
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2017
Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper
Movie Semiramide
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2016
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Movie Florence Foster Jenkins
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2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Movie Herself - Host
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2016
Massenet: Werther
Movie Charlotte
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2016
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie Romeo
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2015
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie Romeo
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2015
Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Movie Elena
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2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Movie Self - Host
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2014
Bizet: Carmen
Movie Self - Host
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2014
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Movie Romeo
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2014
The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola
Movie Angelina
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2013
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda
Movie Mary Stuart
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2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Movie Self - Host
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2012
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
Movie Sycorax
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2012
Verdi: Ernani
Movie Self - Host
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2011
Gounod: Faust
Movie Self - Host
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2011
Cendrillon - Royal Oper House
Movie Cendrillon / Lucette
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2011
Le comte Ory
Movie Isolier (breeches role)
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2010
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Cenerentola
Movie Angelina
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2009
The Barber of Seville
Movie Rosina
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2009
Händel - Der Film
Movie Francesca Cuzzoni
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2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Movie Self - Host
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2008
Don Giovanni
Movie Donna Elvira
