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

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.

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

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.

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

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 🥰

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 🧬

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

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/

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

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!

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"🎵

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

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

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!

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...

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! 📮

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🍎

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 🎵

On the music stand today is new opera "Rosalind", about Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of DNA. It premieres in April with the London Mozart Players & Helix Music in the chapel of Kings College London, where Franklin made the famous Photograph 51 🧬 www.londonmozartplayers.com/whatson-even...

This really is the most glorious music 🎵🍭 This morning I'm prepping for a coaching tomorrow on Hansel and reflecting on how lucky I am to sing this dream role at Longborough Festival Opera this summer! Public booking opens 2 March. But 18-35 tickets open now! www.lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel-and-gretel

What a lovely concert last night with Ensemble Augelletti in the beautiful Great Hall at Barts North Wing - the culmination of my time as a Musician in Residence there 🎻🪈🎵 We've also made a sound installation, available to all on the Barts Heritage website soon! www.bartsnorthwing.org.uk

Join us in the candlelit Great Hall of London's oldest working hospital for an evening of 18th century music and readings. 🎵 Monday 12 January, 7pm 🕯️ Great Hall, Bart's North Wing 🎻 £10/£8 www.bartsnorthwing.org.uk

Trying to stay warm in these icy temperatures with thoughts of the summer ⛱️ I have some delicious music to look forward to, including singing dream role Hansel at @longboroughfestivalopera in July & August 🍭 30 July, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 August 2026 Longborough Festival Opera lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel...

It's conflicting sharing Spotify wrapped posts, given the dire state of streaming for musicians. However, I am grateful to all those who have listened to "Letters from Scandinavia" since September. And if you want to listen without streaming you can even buy a CD 😉 joannaharries.com/letters-from...

Goodbye 2025! 🎆 Wishing everyone a 2026 full of new adventures, whatever those might be 🥳

Interrupting your holiday celebrations / cheese haze with a winter newsletter ✉️ Read here: 📫 eepurl.com/jvDsog

A patient is seized with fever and delirium - will they make it through the night? Join me & Ensemble Augelletti in the candlelit Great Hall of the historic North Wing for an evening of eighteenth century music and readings🩺🎵 Mon 12 Jan 7pm Barts Hospital £10/£8 www.joannaharries.com/sonic-threads

Our Artist of the Day is mezzo-soprano @joannaharries.bsky.social who made her recording debut with us in 2023, followed by a beautiful Salon Series recital and then our recent revival of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine 🙌 Here's to more collaborations in the near future Joanna!

A lovely Messiah yesterday in Stamford with Stamford Choral, the Musical & Amicable Society and a sold out audience of Handel fans 🎵

Happy to share more reviews this afternoon for our revival of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine from ConcertoNet, Opera Today and @bachtrack.com 🙌 If you were at the performance, we'd love to get your feedback too: opera-rara.com/about-us/sur... @joannaharries.bsky.social

The dress I wore for Friday's concert with @operarara.bsky.social was extra special because it belonged to my grandma. She sang in Luton Girls' Choir as a teenager and would have been so proud that her dress was on stage at the Barbican last week. Here's me backstage and Marjorie 70 years ago ♥️

Still on a high after yesterday's "La Rondine" at the Barbican with @operarara.bsky.social, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and the loveliest cast 🥰 I've had the best time rehearsing and recording with them for the past two weeks! Look out for the recording & broadcast on BBC Radio 3 next year🐦

For everyone able to join us at the Barbican Centre tomorrow night, you can access our digital programme via the below link. Want to fully immerse yourself more in the world of Puccini? Why not watch the first episode of our Lives in Song: Puccini podcast too! 🎶 mailchi.mp/bb5b37524390...

Deliziosa, deliziosa...! Our recording of Puccini's La Rondine is all finished 🎙️ It's been a truly joyful week recording with @operarara.bsky.social and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale this week. Can't wait for a sold out performance at the Barbican on Friday! 🐦🎵

🎄 CHRISTMAS TREE 🎄

Rebecca Clarke nerds, don't miss this podcast episode all about her life and work by the lovely @liedernerd - featuring a recording of The Seal Man that Natalie Burch & I recorded several years ago. One of the best songs ever 🦭 . . . #Repost Follow the Lieder & Cincinnati Song Initiative

First day in the recording studio today with @operarara.bsky.social & thr BBC Symphony Orchestra recording the 1921 version of Puccini's "La Rondine" 🐦 Our concert performance at the Barbican on 5 Dec is almost sold out I think, but definitely worth it if you can get your hands on a ticket!

'Letters from Scandinavia' was on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast this morning ☺️ You can listen to me & Sholto Kynoch perform Agathe Backer Grøndahl's "Til mit Hjertes Dronning" towards the end of the programme - a moonlit wander with a lover: 'To the Queen of My Heart' 🌙 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on my music stand this morning 🎄 Revisiting some for the next month's concerts, plus a new one this year - Saint-Saëns "Oratorio de Noël"

Today we'd like to introduce you to our grisettes in our revival of the final 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine on 5 Dec: 🎶 British/New Zealand mezzo-soprano @joannaharries.bsky.social 🎵 Colombian soprano Julieth Lozano Rolong 🎼Welsh soprano Jessica Robinson We hope to see you there!

“This is an unusual and enchanting thing – not just an album but an embracing narrative experience…” Thank you to Gramophone for this review of our album 'Letters from Scandinavia' 🥰 You can listen on all the music places or even buy a copy! 🎧 Listen here: joannaharries.com/letters-from...

Spent today recording with Ensemble Augelletti as part of our "Sonic Threads" sound installation for Barts Heritage 🎙️ You couldn't ask for a nicer or more talented bunch 🥰 (PS you can hear us live in the beautiful Great Hall at St Bart's Hospital on 12 Jan) bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/sonic...

In just under a month we'll be performing this beautiful music at the @barbicancentre with @opera.rara & @bbcsymphonyorchestra after we record it in a few week's time 🎵🎭 It's a rare chance to hear the final 1921 'Paris' version of "La Rondine"! www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Exploring Handel, Purcell & more with wonderful Ensemble Augelletti this morning for our Sonic Threads project in the newly restored North Wing at St Bart's Hospital. We'll be recording a sound installation next month & you can watch us live on 12 Jan: www.bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/sonic-threads

"I just wanted to say how wonderful the SongPath was today. A real treat and so grounding"🌳 What a lovely response to yesterday's SongPath in beautiful Brighton! And thanks to Holly at BREMF for making this lovely - listen out for birdsong, Bach, Handel, apple wassails and a 13th century round🍁

Love nature? Join us for our SongPath in beautiful Stanmer Park Nature Reserve in Brighton as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival this Saturday 18 October, 11am. With me, Angela Hicks (soprano) & Adrian Butterflield (violin) Tickets £5/£10 www.songpath.co.uk @brightonemf.bsky.social

Still on a high from our Letters from Scandinavia recital that kicked off this year's Oxford Song festival in the Holywell Music Room today! It was such a joy to revisit this programme with pianist Sholto Kynoch after releasing our CD last month 🎵 #LettersFromScandinavia

Last chance to catch mine and the brilliant @annatilbrook's recital of Italian song on the @opera.rara YouTube channel! Songs by Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti - it's free to watch until the end of today. 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyY6...

SongPath is heading to the North East next summer for an uplifting and interactive afternoon of song in Durham's glorious Botanic Gardens, from the woodland garden to the wildflower meadow! 🌳 Sunday 21 June 🌻 1:30pm 🌷 Durham Botanic Garden with Durham University MUSICON www.songpath.co.uk