Joanna Harries returns to Loughborough Festival Opera next summer as Hansel in Lucy Bailey’s new production of Hansel and Gretel, conducted by Karen Kamensek.
There are 6 performances from 30 July to 8 August 2026.
Joanna Harries returns to Loughborough Festival Opera next summer as Hansel in Lucy Bailey’s new production of Hansel and Gretel, conducted by Karen Kamensek.
There are 6 performances from 30 July to 8 August 2026.
The debut album from mezzo soprano Joanna Harries, Letters from Scandinavia, is released today by CRD Records.
The album, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, features Swedish, Norwegian & Finnish songs by Backer Grøndahl, Grieg, Munktell, Netzel, Sibelius & Stenhammar, interwoven with 19th century travel writing & musical soundscapes by Peter Facer. It is available both as CD or download from the usual streaming platforms.
Joanna and Sholto will also be performing it live in the opening recital of the Oxford International Song Festival on 10 October.
The first single from Joanna Harries‘ debut album Letters from Scandinavia, is out today. The album, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, features little recorded and world premieres of 19th century Lieder taking in Grieg, Stenhammer, Agathe Backer Grøndhal, Laura Netzel and Sibelius, interwoven with commissioned works from Peter Facer.
Today’s release, and Gramophone Magazine’s Video of the Day, is Säg mig, du lilla fogel by little known Swedish composer Laura Netzel (1839-1927). The score for this song only exists, in a handwritten manuscript in the Swedish Music Heritage archives, and Joanna transcribed and transposed it for recording.
More singles will be released in coming months ahead of the album release by CRD Records on 5th September 2025.
Joanna Harries sings Finocchini in Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde, conducted by Paul Daniel with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
A travelling circus, an innocent prince in love with a waxwork and a lottery ticket to win a magnificent castle… What could possibly go wrong?
Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde
Label: Opera Rara
Code: ORC63
Release date: 22 September 2023
Neil Balfour and Joanna Harries feature on Wonderland: The Alice Sound a new recording from LSO Live of Paul Rissmann’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, conducted by Lee Reynolds with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Inspired by the Lewis Carroll books and by early musical adaptations of them, composer Paul Rissmann wrote two musical suites which were premiered by the LSO in 2015 (Alice in Wonderland) and 2022 (Through the Looking Glass). Both Neil and Joanna performed these works in a family concert at the Barbican which included the premiere of Through the Looking Glass.
A range of cross-curricular learning resources and other materials are available on The Alice Sound website.
Wonderland: The Alice Sound is available on all digital streaming platforms form 30 June 2023
We are delighted that the mezzo soprano Joanna Harries has joined our artist roster for general management. Joanna was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In the current season she is a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio.
In the current season engagements include Diana in Scott Stroman’s The Weekend at the Bloomsbury Theatre; The Moon Hares a schools project performance for the OAE; Karolka Jenůfa for Fulham Opera; a series of performances with Opera Prelude; a Britten Pears masterclass and recital with Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton; and SongPath at the Oxford Botanic Gardens as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival.
