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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This last week, both producing & singing Jezibaba in Dvorak’s Rusalka with Domingo Hindoyan & the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has been equally exhausting & exhilarating. Lucky me to have a world-class bunch of people to work with & appreciative Scouse audiences giving standing O’s

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Me and Alisdair Hogarth are beyond excited to present our new programme ‘FLY ME TO THE MOON’ at Ronnie Scott’s, the world’s most iconic jazz venue, tracing a path between classical song, jazz, cabaret and popular music, from Schubert to The Beatles: www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...

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Jennifer Johnston & Alisdair Hogarth: Fly Me to the Moon - Ronnie Scott's

A journey through classical, jazz, cabaret and timeless songs, performed by internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and pianist Alisdair Hogarth.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am delighted to have been selected for the Oxford Cultural Leaders programme, an initiative led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with some of the most prominent cultural institutions globally.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Going nocturnal @wigmore-hall.org.uk this evening: a thoughtfully programmed & beautifully performed recital by @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social & Malcolm Martineau. 🙏

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Streetwise Opera @streetwiseopera.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Superstar mezzo-soprano @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social is joining the line-up of our carol concert Deck the Halls with Streetwise Opera. Jennifer will perform John Rutter's arrangement of the Christmas carol 'O Holy Night'.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

OUT TODAY on worldwide digital release from Decca, our Mahler 8 with Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, recorded at the Concertgebouw during the Mahler Festival 2025. Veni creator spiritus!

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🎥 The Golden Age of Hollywood 🎥 #EdithPresents: I’m excited to perform a new recital programme with Julius Drake at Cadogan Hall in April. Tickets are available here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/edi...

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So long, Norwegian National Opera and Rusalka, it’s been brilliant. Huge thanks to all of my colleagues, especially Ed Gardner. Onwards!

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Priority Booking opens today for my ✨Lost In The Stars✨recital at @wigmore-hall.org.uk with the stellar Malcolm Martineau on the piano. Please join us for a nocturnal meander through some of the world’s most beautiful songs at 7.30pm on Friday 20th March 2026 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano Lost In The Stars

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Delighted that The Times approves of my portrayal of Ježibaba in Rusalka at the Norwegian National Opera! 🧙🏻🧜🏻‍♀️

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Rusalka #4 at DNO this evening 🧜🏻‍♀️🧙🏻

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The best review I ever received! www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/transpo... #CreativeConsultancy #Strategy

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! The premiere of Dvorak’s Rusalka at the Norwegian National Opera conducted by Edward Gardner, both my house debut and role debut as Jezibaba. Toi toi toi to all of my brilliant colleagues #CuryMuryFuk 🧙🏻🧜🏻‍♀️✨ 📸 Erik Berg / The Norwegian Opera & Ballet @harrisonparrott.bsky.social

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Mahler’s first major work, Das Klagende Lied, with Hannu Lintu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

What a special week, performing Mahler’s 8th Symphony at Het Concertgebouw’s Mahler Festival, and on the 114th anniversary of Mahler’s death, with Klaus Mäkelä & @concertgborkest.bsky.social.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Some news: I’m delighted to be singing the role of Jezibaba in a concert staging of Dvořák’s Rusalka w Domingo Hindoyan & @liverpoolphil.bsky.social, with Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, PLUS this is also the 1st in a series of operas in concert for which I am Creative Producer for the RLPO.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Very much looking forward to making my debut at the Norwegian National Opera at the start of next season, conducted by Ed Gardner, in a role and opera I have long wanted to perform: JEZIBABA in Dvořák’s masterpiece Rusalka 🧙🏻🧜🏻‍♀️🔮 @harrisonparrott.bsky.social

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Baroness Barbara Keeley @baronesskeeley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Agree @lpchoir.bsky.social this was amazing Well done to you & London Symphony Chorus & Tiffin Boys’ Choir @lporchestra.bsky.social Ed Gardner Tom Morris and all the soloists including @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social #Mahler8

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Thoroughly Good @thoroughlygood.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

For the 200th episode of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast, mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston talks about her career as a singer and her work as a producer and creative consultant. 🎧 lnk.to/7HBhHE

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200: Jennifer Johnston

Some people raise the bar just by walking into the room. Mezzo Soprano and Creative Consultant Jennifer Johnston is one of them. We talk about her award-winning creative work during the pandemic, her…

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Looking forward to returning to the BBC Proms for Mahler’s lesser heard Das Klagende Lied, conducted by Hannu Lintu with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Grab a ticket!

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A 5* review from @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social in The Observer for Mahler 3 with Domingo Hindoyan and @liverpoolphil.bsky.social last week. It was a special night.

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Streetwise Opera @streetwiseopera.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our amazing patron @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social writes about Streetwise Opera in the Journal of The RSA. To read the article go to www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

‘Voices Carry’, an article I wrote for The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)’s Journal about opera and the remarkable work of the multi-award winning @streetwiseopera.bsky.social, which harnesses the transformative power of music and theatre…

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Mahler 3 with Domingo Hindoyan & the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir & Youth Company, including my daughter. Performing alongside her, with my own mama in the audience, was a moment: 📸 Gareth Jones

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Genuinely delighted to return to @wigmore-hall.org.uk, esp in its 125th Anniversary, for an evening recital w legendary pianist Malcolm Martineau in Spring 2026 (& chuffed to be mentioned w these luminaries in the announcement). Our programme will be ✨starry✨, more anon @harrisonparrott.bsky.social

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Over the past 2 years, I’ve introduced a new strategy, Transported By Culture, to the London Transport Museum, 1 major thread of which is Music In The Museum, bringing live music & musicians into the building via both public and private events. 🧵

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

‘Accelerating Action: Leading the Change’ was the topic of discussion at the Royal Society of Arts’ event for International Women’s Day. It was a pleasure to chair it, with such brilliant panellists. If you missed it, you can watch it back on the RSA’s website: www.thersa.org/videos/accel...

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Stepping into the role of Judith on the opening night of English National Opera’s new production of Bluebeard’s Castle was surreal enough, but to hear that it has been nominated for an @olivierawards.bsky.social is jaw-dropping! Congratulations to everyone on Team Bluebeard.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY to the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme! Becoming an NGA was career-defining for me. Working with all of the BBC orchestras + Singers & producers was a gift + I made my Proms & solo Wigmore Hall debuts live on Radio 3. Here’s to the next 25 years!

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What a week. Mahler 2 with the brilliant Gergely Madaras and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Polina Pasztircsák & Namur Symphonic Choir. Special to perform this piece in this hall, where Mahler himself conducted it for the first time outside Austria in 1899.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Rest in peace, JJ, giant of literature. It has been (at times) hilarious fielding some of your correspondence and invitations to literary events over the years, but you always found wry amusement in the mix-ups. I would also like to reassure my family that I am alive and well in Belgium.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In 2024 Elizabeth McKay, the Director of the London Transport Museum (world’s leading museum of urban transport) revealed her pioneering vision: turning up the impact dial & developing creativity via placing culture at the heart of the Museum’s offer, a scheme we’ve named Transported By Culture 🧵

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Alongside these 3 powerhouse women (Museum Director, Head of Comms, Head of Visitor Experience), tomorrow we launch a major strand of a new cultural initiative at the London Transport Museum. Looking forward to sharing more about it tomorrow. Cultural innovation in real time… #CreativeConsultant

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Out today! A Plastic Theatre, a new album of the works of Joanna Marsh on Signum Classics. I appear on the highly environmentally relevant title piece, A Plastic Theatre, with the wonderful Ellie Slorach and @liverpoolphil.bsky.social orchestra, youth and children’s choirs.

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Streetwise Opera @streetwiseopera.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We are thrilled to announce we have been shortlisted for the 2025 #RPSAwards in the Impact category for our Re:Discover Festival, along with the amazing Ex Cathedra - Singing Medicine and @worldheartbeat.bsky.social! 🎉 Find out more at streetwiseopera.org/2025-rps-awa... @royalphilsoc.bsky.social

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A dazzling sunset on my freezing evening walk.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The music department at Cardiff University is going to close. Yet another blow.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

CONSULTANCY UPDATE: Far from living a quiet life, I have been busy of late. I am developing some major projects with 3 national organisations, one launching at the London Transport Museum, about which I will be able to share more at the beginning of February so watch this space.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

New Year’s Resolutions for 2025: - Underconsumption Core. Or as my Nanna would have called it, Make Do & Mend. Not buying anything unless it’s strictly necessary is a good challenge for this year, and a whole lot better for the environment.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My very last-minute on-the-day mad-dash English National Opera debut (and London mainstage opera debut) as Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle has made it on to Fiona Maddocks’ top 10 best concerts and opera of 2024 in @theguardian.com @harrisonparrott.bsky.social

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Opera singer: I had laryngitis.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

2024 has been professionally epic, with some significant landmarks, especially my first Judith with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Filharmonien, the role that became my very last-minute on-the-day debut at English National Opera. 🧵

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My grandfather Noel (who I called Pop) LOVED Christmas, and was even named after it, having been born in Advent. He was Santa at the Christmas Fete, and I was his little fairy helper in the Grotto. In my head Christmas will always belong to my Pop. Merry Christmas, Every One.

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Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

One of those magic school teachers, Daphne Wigmore was head of drama & trusted me with a big role in a big play (The Mayor in Gogol’s A Government Inspector), meaning I wasn’t daunted when acting on stage in opera for the first time. Here’s to all of the acting teachers, often unsung heroes.

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Marc Murray @orgab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Thank you to all our audience who braved the weather conditions to attend the concert of Christmas music presented by Southport Bach Choir. The choir had an opportunity to meet our new patron, @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social @southport-bach.bsky.social

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James @jamessemple.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Made my Top 5 which is almost like getting an Oscar. 😂

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