Joyce DiDonato

Multi Grammy Award-winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold,” according to The Times, DiDonato has towered to the top of the industry as a performer, producer and fierce advocate for the arts. 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.

Recent highlights include a return to Teatro Real Madrid for Handel’s Theodora, a European recital tour with performances at Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Athens Megaron and Palau de la Música de Valencia. DiDonato continued her celebrated musical partnership with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra and made debut appearances with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In December 2024, DiDonato toured the United States with Dallas-based a cappella group Kings Return with a festive program entitled “Kings Re-Joyce.” An intensive spring residency at the Konzerthaus Dortmund featured the world premiere of Another Eve, a song cycle by Rachel Portman, as well as her concert debut in Handel’s Jephtha alongside Il Pomo d’Oro. 

DiDonato’s distinctively varied 2025-26 season commences with season opening concerts for both the Minnesota Orchestra and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as subscription series performances with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. DiDonato returns to Musikkollegium Winterthur for a performance of Rachel Portman’s Another Eve, and collaborates with Radio France for Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder in Paris and Dijon. She reunites with pianist Craig Terry for recitals at Théâtre de Genève and Suntory Hall Tokyo. DiDonato embarks on a major tour of Australasia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, she makes her Lincoln Center stage debut as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and makes her much-anticipated role debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Nézet-Séguin and the Berlin Philharmonic. She maintains her annual masterclass series at Carnegie Hall and tours her album Songplay throughout Asia. DiDonato also joins the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on a European tour following a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at Carnegie Hall. 

As DiDonato’s latest global touring project, EDEN, completed after a ground-breaking three years, with tours in Asia, South America, the United States and Europe, reaching over 15 million people and performances in 50 cities, the anticipation is only building for her next album release and touring project. A newly commissioned song cycle written by Kevin Puts for DiDonato and the Grammy Award-winning string trio, Time For Three, featuring the poetry of Emily Dickinson will be directed by Andrew Staples and had its world premiere at Bregenzer Festspiele in August 2025, with subsequent performances in the U.S. include Kansas City, Chicago and New York.  

On the operatic stage, DiDonato’s recent roles include Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera and in a new production at the Royal Opera House, Didon in Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper; Sesto in Cendrillon and Adalgisa in Norma at the Metropolitan Opera; Agrippina in concert with Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanchev; Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real Madrid and London’s Barbican Centre; Semiramide at the Bavarian State Opera and Royal Opera House, and Charlotte in Werther at the Royal Opera House.

Much in demand on the concert and recital circuit, DiDonato has held residencies at Carnegie Hall and at London’s Barbican Centre, toured extensively in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and appeared as guest soloist at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. Other concert highlights include the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Accademia Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra USA under Sir Antonio Pappano.
 
DiDonato’s expansive discography includes the highly celebrated Les Troyens (winning Gramophone’s coveted Recording of the Year) and Handel’s Agrippina (Gramophone’s Opera Recording of the Year). Her other albums include her singular EDEN, the acclaimed Winterreise with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Grammy Award winning Songplay, In War & Peace, the 2017 Best Recital Gramophone Award, Stella di Napoli, Grammy Award-winning Diva Divo and Drama Queens. Other honors include the Gramophone Artist and Recital of the Year awards, as well as an inaugural inductee into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. In September 2024, DiDonato was honored to receive the 14th Concertgebouw Prize for her exceptional contribution to the artistic profile of the Concertgebouw.