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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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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memo...
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 year...
Join host Michael Keaton to celebrate "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," the pioneering children's series that prem...
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD pres...
Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story features a brilliant cast, led by bel canto stars Joyce DiDonat...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Juan, creating...
An all-star cast assembled for the Met’s first-ever performances of Rossini’s romantic retelling of Sir Walter...
Rising Met star Angela Meade is Elvira, the young woman caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turne...
The 2017–18 Live in HD season concluded with an enchanted performance of Cendrillon, Massenet’s glittering oper...
23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly – legend has...
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who...
This is an excellent version of one of the greatest of all comic operas, featuring superb singing and orchestra...
Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of...
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera tril...
Recorded live in June 2017 at the magnificent Liceu Theatre in Barcelona, this DVD is the companion to Joyce Di...
Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for...
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’...
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the mar...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna...
Joyce DiDonato gives a sensational performance as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto drama, opposit...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of decepti...
Bellini's radiant retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a beacon in the bel canto tradition. San Franc...
Cenerentola (Joyce DiDonato) is the stepdaughter of Don Magnifico but is treated as a servant in his household....
Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet she is a cult figure whose recordin...
Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize...
Handel (1685-1759) is the first "pop titan" in history. His hits such as the "Hallelujah", the "Sarabande" or t...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scorned by the...
DON GIOVANNI is one of the timeless classics of all opera. Mozart’s music, and the words of his great collabora...
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the...
Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a...
This release from Erato consists of highlights from the live concert of April 15, 2017 in the city of Strasbour...
A contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together...
In mid-March 2020, as the Met made the difficult decision to cancel performances due to the escalating COVID-19...
John Nelson conducting the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Accentus Chamber Choir.