Joyce DiDonato is an American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano.
31 Facts About Joyce DiDonato
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Joyce DiDonato is notable for her interpretations of operas and concert works in the 19th-century romantic era in addition to works by Handel and Mozart.
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Joyce DiDonato has performed with many of the world's leading opera companies and orchestras, and won multiple awards including the 2012,2016 and 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo.
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Joyce DiDonato's father, Donald, was a self-employed architect who designed houses in the area.
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Joyce DiDonato later went to Bishop Miege High School where she sang in musicals.
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Joyce DiDonato entered Wichita State University in 1988 to study vocal music education, because she was initially more interested in teaching high school vocal music and musical theatre.
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Joyce DiDonato became interested in opera after seeing a PBS telecast of Don Giovanni, and then, in her junior year, when she was cast in a school production of Die Fledermaus.
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Joyce DiDonato was honored as one of several Outstanding Apprentice Artists by the Santa Fe Opera that year.
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Joyce DiDonato became a part of Houston Grand Opera's young artist program in 1996; she sang there from autumn 1996 until spring 1998.
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Joyce DiDonato gave a recital in San Francisco that year as part of the Schwabacher recital series.
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Joyce DiDonato gave a recital at New York's Morgan Library under the auspices of the George London Foundation and featured as a soloist in the Seattle Symphony production of Handel's Messiah.
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Joyce DiDonato toured Europe with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre in performances of Les nuits d'ete.
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Joyce DiDonato performed Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo with De Nederlandse Opera and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and sang the role of Ascanio in a concert performance of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini with the Orchestre National de France.
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Joyce DiDonato made solo recital appearances at the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Kansas City's Folly Theater, and Wigmore Hall in London, among others.
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Joyce DiDonato sang at the Hollywood Bowl in a production of Beethoven's Symphony No 9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Joyce DiDonato returned to the Royal Opera House as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, sang her first Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at Grand Theatre de Geneve, and sang the role of Dejanira in Handel's Hercules at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Barbican Centre with William Christie.
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Joyce DiDonato appeared in several concerts with the New York Philharmonic and gave a recital at Wigmore Hall.
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Joyce DiDonato closed the Santa Fe Opera's 50th anniversary season in the title role of Massenet's Cendrillon.
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Joyce DiDonato sang Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera and sang her first Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier with the San Francisco Opera in addition to an extensive recital tour through the United States and Europe accompanied by Julius Drake.
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Joyce DiDonato sang the title role in Handel's Alcina with Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco and the title role in Handel's Ariodante at the Grand Theatre de Geneve.
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Joyce DiDonato sang Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opera Bastille and returned to Teatro Real as Idamante in Idomeneo in July 2008.
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Joyce DiDonato gave recitals at La Scala, Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed a special concert of Handel arias which was recorded in Brussels.
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Joyce DiDonato then carried out the five remaining performances in a wheelchair.
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Joyce DiDonato performed the roles of Beatrice in Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict at Houston Grand Opera, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo with Opera National de Paris, and Rosina in her debut at Vienna State Opera.
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Joyce DiDonato appeared in concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the latter of which under the baton of James Levine.
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Joyce DiDonato toured Europe and the United States with Les Talens Lyriques, giving concerts of Handel arias, including performances at Wigmore Hall and the Rossini Opera Festival.
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Joyce DiDonato sang the role of Isolier in Rossini's Le comte Ory at the Metropolitan Opera in April 2011.
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Joyce DiDonato collaborated with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro in a series of concert recitals imbued with choreography and theatrical effects.
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Joyce DiDonato acted and sang in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Handel's Agrippina in 2020, in the title role of Agrippina.
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Joyce DiDonato portrayed Virginia Woolf in the Metropolitan Opera's world stage premiere of Kevin Puts's opera The Hours in November 2022.
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Joyce DiDonato met Italian conductor Leonardo Vordoni at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2003 and fell in love at first sight.