Joyce DiDonato
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Multi-Grammy Award-winner Joyce DiDonato has towered to the top of the classical music industry as a performer, a producer, a teacher and a fierce advocate for the arts for years. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.
Recently having both opened and closed the Metropolitan Opera's 2023-24 season as Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking and Virginia Woolf in The Hours, DiDonato also concluded her two-year, 50-city tour of EDEN—a project that combined a virtuosic concert experience with dedicated educational work across for continents. This season she reprises her heralded role of Irene in Theodora at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Celebrated concert appearances continue with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, her debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, a European recital tour, a genre-bending holiday tour with Kings Return, an intensive residency with the Dortmund Konzerthaus, and includes the recording of a new bold album around the poetry of Emily Dickinson, written by Kevin Puts. This year she receives the prestigious Concertgebouw Prize, only the 14th recipient in the legendary hall’s history.