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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 1h

Our recording of La Rondine with Opera Rara and BBC Symphony Orchestra was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this weekend and you can listen to it on BBC Sounds! The album is also released at the end of this month 🥳💿 📻 BBC Sounds ow.ly/C2Q750ZTXXI 💿 Pre-order the album shop.opera-rara.com/shopcatalogu...

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Starting off the autumn by jumping in for a recital of cantatas & arias by Handel & Domenico Scarlatti at Handel House tonight with Julian Perkins (and wishing Diana a speedy recovery) 🎼

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A little glimpse of my final performance day of Hansel & Gretel with Longborough Festival Opera Missing this wonderful team already ♥️

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's Hansel & Gretel show #3 today at Longborough Festival Opera and I'm so pleased the show has been received so well! A few nice quotes about me and partner in crime Rosalind Dobson from The Times, Opera Now, The Stage etc

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hansel & Gretel opened yesterday at Longborough Festival Opera and I could not be more proud of this lovely team and what we brought to the stage ✨ It's a joy to bring this feral little boy to life. Enjoying a day off before two more shows this weekend!

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Opera is messy work...Some rehearsal photos from Hansel & Gretel with Longborough Festival Opera 🍰 Hansel - me Gretel - Rosalind Dobson Witch / Mother - Lee Bisset Father - Darren Jeffery Sandman - Laura Fleur Dew Fairy - Kelli-Ann Masterson Conductor - Karen Kamensek Director - Lucy Bailey

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📝 "I much admired Joanna Harries as Varvara, impish and frivolous, with a delightful voice, particularly in her folk song..." - Seen & Heard International A nice review of our Katya Kabanova concert performance last weekend. I think "impish and frivolous" is what I shall aspire to be at all times😈

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hello Longborough Festival Opera 🎵! We had our sitzprobe yesterday with the orchestra and are now into a week of stage rehearsals for Hansel & Gretel. Also enjoying some beautiful morning runs in the Cotswold countryside.

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Tonight! Singing Janáček's beautiful "Katya Kabanova" with this team ⛈️ Katya - Philippa Boyle Boris - James Schouten Tichon - Jonathan Finney Kabanicha - Lauren Easton Varvara - me Kudryash - Robin Whitehouse Dikoi - Ashley Mercer Glasha - Caroline Carragher Sun 19 July 6:30pm St John's Waterloo

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Looking forward to returning to Brighton Early Music Festival this autumn with SongPath 🌳 We'll be the closing event of this year's festival on Sunday 25 October, bringing music once again to Brighton's beautiful Stanmer Park 🍄🍂🍎 🌜 www.bremf.org.uk/event/bremf-2026-bringers-of-dreams/

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

From Fri 17-Sun 19 July there's another chance to watch mine & Anna Tilbrook's Opera Rara recital of Italian song by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini & Uccelli as part of their summer stream. Also check out the other amazing artists! 😍🌞 www.opera-rara.com/summer-stream-concert-series-from-opera-rara

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Taking a break from Hansel & Gretel this weekend to practice some Janáček ahead of our Kátya Kabanová. I've loved this music ever since I sang in the chorus with Opera Holland Park at college, then sang Varvara a few years later 🎻Sun 19 July St John's Waterloo www.newpalaceopera.com/katya-kabanova

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Into week 2 of rehearsals for Longborough Festival Opera Hansel & Gretel and feeling full of energy, strawberries and love for this team 🍓 We open 30 July 🍭🍬🍰🧹🌳🎵 www.lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel-and-gretel

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We had stunning weather last weekend for SongPath at the beautiful Durham University Botanic Gardens with Jess Dandy & clarinetist Jessica Lee 🌳 Singing under the trees, poetry in the glasshouse, a cuckoo chorus in the woodland, handbell choir by the foxgloves & a new work by composer James Weeks🌿🎵

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In between opera rehearsals it was lovely to lead another "Sounding Bodies" workshop last weekend at Barts Hospital with cellist Sophie Gledhill. We explored music & the body in the stunning Great Hall as part of Creative Health & Heritage Day (with London Museum) for patients & their families 🎵

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

First day of music calls for Hansel & Gretel with Longborough Festival Opera today! 🍭Hansel-me 🍬Gretel-Rosalind Dobson 🧹Witch-Lee Bisset 🍺Father-Darren Jeffery 🧚‍♂️Dew Fairy-Kelli Ann Masterson 🧝‍♂️Sandman-Laura Fleur Conductor-Karen Kamensek Director-Lucy Bailey www.lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel-and-gretel

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

SongPath comes to Durham Botanic Garden this weekend, so here's one of my favourite Northumbrian folksongs🎵 music • nature • wellbeing 🌳Sunday 21 June 🌷1:30-3:30pm 🌱Durham Botanic Garden 🪻FREE with entry to gardens (£5/£4/free) Book your free place www.songpath.co.uk @durhammusicdept.bsky.social

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Very much looking forward to bringing this cracking programme to Bridgewater Hall with Aleksandra Myslek in the autumn as part of Manchester Midday Concerts series! 🧚‍♂️ Always love returning to Manchester, where I studied at RNCM. 🎟️ www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on/manchester-middays-221026/

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durhammusicdept.bsky.social @durhammusicdept.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Join us on Sunday at the Botanic Garden for SongPath – an afternoon of walking, talking, and music-making in nature. Singers Jess Dandy and @joannaharries.bsky.social lead a musical trail through the garden. Free with Botanic Garden entry, from 1.30pm.

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The stunning Layer Marney Tower in Essex was the last stop for me for a little while on the Wild Arts Opera Evenings tour. I'm now off to Hansel & Gretel Longborough Festival Opera, but will be back with this lovely team for a few more performances at the end of the summer 🧹 🎵

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Durham looking beautiful in the sunshine at our SongPath workshop at Durham University on Monday. Can't wait to bring SongPath to Durham Botanic Gardens on Sun 21 June for an uplifting blend of music & nature www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/music/about-us/events/songpath-in-the-botanic-garden

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Such a fantastic event on Tues with Hospital Rooms at Goodmayes Hospital seeing all the new artworks completed on the mental health wing. Last year we created a new song cycle with an amazing group of patients and staff here as part of this project, with composer Alex Groves & pianist Jong Sun Woo

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The beautiful Thorington Theatre in Suffolk where we performed with Wild Arts on Sunday. What a stunning venue in the middle of the woods!

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A few of the beautiful locations for @wildartspresents Opera Evening this past week with this lovely bunch 🌳🎻

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Are you in the North East? Join SongPath at Durham Botanic Gardens on 21st June for a unique afternoon of music-making and wellbeing in nature! 🌳 Sunday 21 June 🪻 1:30pm-3:30pm 🌷 Durham University Botanic Garden 🌱 Free with entry to Gardens. Book your place here: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

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durhammusicdept.bsky.social @durhammusicdept.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

On 21st June, join SongPath for a unique afternoon of music, nature, and wellbeing in Durham University Botanic Garden. Singers Jess Dandy and @joannaharries.bsky.social lead an uplifting, interactive musical trail from the woodland garden to the wildflower meadow.

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Janáček is one of my favourite composers, because of how much magic he packs into a few short bars-and I've been so enjoying revisiting the role of Varvara for a concert performance of Kátya Kabanová with @newpalaceopera 📅Sun 19 July 🕡6:30pm 📍St John's Waterloo www.newpalaceopera.com/katya-kabanova

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A few weeks ago I returned to Trinity College, Cambridge where I sang in the choir as an undergrad, for a recital in the Master's Lodge with Sholto Kynoch 🎹 I remember watching some of the Master's Lodge concerts as an undergrad - so it was pretty surreal and special to be in one!

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My favourite gigs are in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And a treat to sing with the lovely human that is @siandicker last night 🎵

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Memories from new opera "Rosalind" about Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of DNA last month with London Mozart Players & Helix Music at King's College London where she took the famous Photograph 51 🧬 Such a lovely cast & team to work with and a stunning Double Helix-inspired set! 📸 Bill Knight

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When you're colour co-ordinated with your prop broom 🧹 Instead of a stepsister or Prince Charming, this time I get a chance to play Cinderella in @wildartspresents Opera Evenings this summer. On the musical menu: a smörgåsbord of Rossini, Massenet, Gluck, Bernstein, Noel Coward & more

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Lady Bragg over and out - what a lovely team to have created the premiere of new opera "Rosalind" with 🧬

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Henry Long @henrylong9.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Curtain call at the premiere of Rosalind, an opera about the work of Rosalind Franklin on the discovery of DNA, in the chapel of King's College London; it was at King's that she undertook her DNA research.

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Trying to look fabulous on your dinner break but it's giving Dinner Ladies 💁‍♀️

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dress rehearsal today for "Rosalind" 🧬 Here's part of the double-helix inspired set, very near the labs where Franklin took the famous Photograph 51. Fantastic to put it together with the London Mozart Players and hear the full score - and such a lovely team to work with over the last few weeks.

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Some spring/summer things: OPERA 🧬 21 & 22 Apr WHITE Rosalind (Alice Bragg) London Mozart Players & Helix Music 🎵 19 Jul JANÁČEK Katya Kabanova (Varvara) New Palace Opera 🍬 30 Jul, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Aug HUMPERDINCK Hänsel & Gretel (Hänsel) Longborough Festival Opera www.joannaharries.com/diary-2026

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It was a joy to be a part of "First Thought, Best Thought" at @poetry.plays festival last night: an entirely improvised evening with 3 dancers, painter, pianist, guitarist, spoken word artist and me responding to lines of poetry on the spot. Playful, moving, funny & beautiful in turn 🥰

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Opera requires many skillsets and my latest is learning how to tie a bowtie onstage whilst singing (and not throttling the bass-baritone). The way to practice is apparently on your leg. Sartorial tips welcome 🎀 Meanwhile exciting to see the set and costume designs for "Rosalind" this morning 🧬

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

So looking forward to joining Poetry Plays and this incredible line-up for a special event of multidisciplinary improvisation with poetry, music, dance, art & spoken word 💃🎸🎨🎭🎹🕺✏️📖 📍 The Cockpit, Marylebone 🗓️ Saturday 11th April, 7:30pm www.poetryplays.com/poetry-plays-2026

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Next week we start rehearsals for "Rosalind", a new opera about Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of DNA with Helix Music & the London Mozart Players 🧬 Tickets are sold out but you can apply for the waiting list (21 & 22 April) 🎟️ www.londonmozartplayers.com/event/helix-music-rosalind/

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Is there anything as satisfying as fresh stationery? My scores are shivering in anticipation ✏️📑

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Harpenden Choral Society @harpendencs.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

What a great programme and lovely audience tonight. So lucky to have fantastic soloists @joannaharries.bsky.social and @susannafairbairn.bsys.social with our amazing Musical Director @jkaconductor.bsky.social. This is why we rehearse every week!

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I love a good Vivaldi "Gloria" - you can't help but feel joyful when you hear the orchestra begin!🎻 Lovely concert tonight with @harpendenchoral & @kingschamberorchestra on fine form, with @jkaconductor.bsky.social at the helm & @susannafairbairn also singing a beautiful Mozart "Exultate Jubilate"🎵

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Paris in the spring on a fleeting visit earlier this week 🇫🇷🥖🌞

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Looking forward to ringing in the Spring Equinox with some Vivaldi tomorrow with @jkaconductor.bsky.social @susannafairbairn @harpendenchoral & @kingschamberorchestra 🎶 🌷

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Harpenden Choral Society @harpendencs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Looking forward to singing this wonderful music at our concert on Saturday 21st March with @jkaconductor.bsky.social and soloists Susanna Fairbairn and @joannaharries.bsky.social. Tickets available from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/harpendencho.... We hope to see you there!

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Public booking is open for Longborough Festival Opera Hansel & Gretel this summer! Hansel -me 🍭 Gretel -Rosalind Dobson Witch/Mother -Lee Bisset Father -Darren Jeffery Dew Fairy -Kelli-Ann Masterson Sandman -Laura Fleur Conductor -Karen Kamensek Director -Lucy Bailey lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel...

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New copies of "Letters from Scandinavia" CDs arrived because I'd sold all my others🥰 So proud of this album with Sholto Kynoch, Peter Facer & CRD Records. You can listen on Spotify/Apple Music etc, but if you really want to make a musician's day you can buy a copy - DM & I'll post your very own! 📮

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

You can now register for our summer SongPath at Durham Botanic Garden on Sunday 21 June!🌳 Join me & Jess Dandy for an uplifting blend of music, nature & wellbeing under the trees🌻 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... Meanwhile here's a throwback to our autumn SongPath at Brighton Early Music Festival🍎

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Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Who doesn't love Vivaldi? 🎻 The Gloria is always one of my favourite oratorios to perform. This time next month I'm singing it with @jkaconductor.bsky.social Susanna Fairbairn, Harpenden Choral Society & Kings Sinfonietta - and you will also want to come for Susanna's firecracker Mozart 🎵

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