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

Also a reminder 📢 today that our Salon Series concert stream feat. @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook will be leaving our YouTube channel tomorrow evening ‼️ They present rare Italian songs by Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini & Uccelli. Catch it before it leaves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyY6...

Carolina Uccelli (1810-1885) was only 20 when her oratorio Saul was premiered in her native Florence. Pianist, composer & educator, she encouraged many young female musicians to pursue their passion for the arts. This is an excerpt from Il rimprovero sung by @joannaharries.bsky.social

A reminder today that all our programmes since 2021 are available our issuu account including for our @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook Salon Series recital which you can watch until the end of the month on our YouTube channel. Explore it and more here: issuu.com/operarara

Since posting about my album my social media is now mostly this, and I'm not mad about it. My favourite is skärgårdssill 🐟 (PS "Letters from Scandinavia" is available via all decent music purveyors 🤓)

"Vivid storytelling...meticulously researched and brilliantly executed" What a lovely surprise to hear myself on Radio 3! Thanks to Hannah French for featuring Letters from Scandinavia on Record Review & describing me as a "fervent evangelist for Scandinavian song"🥰 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's today! Album release day is here for Letters from Scandinavia 💿🎉 You can listen on all the music places including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music etc. You can also order a beautiful, shiny CD, or buy a download of the album! www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia

Exciting delivery today! Physical CD copies of "Letters from Scandinavia" arrive ahead of the full album release this Friday 5 September! 🎉💿 You can also hear me & @sholto.kynoch performing it live at @oxfordsong.bsky.social on 10 Oct www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia

Did you tune into our YouTube stream yesterday? If not, fear not! Our @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook Salon Series recital will be up for one month so you can keep returning to hear their beautiful selection of Italian songs. This is from the first of Bellini's Tre Ariette 🎶

302,539 steps over the past 5 days, walking the first half of the beautiful Coast to Coast path from St Bees to Kirkby Stephen through the Lake District & the Dales! 🥾 Approx 150km including Wainwrights Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag, Haystacks, Calf Crag, Gibson Knott, Helm Crag & Kidsty Pike 🏞️

A reminder today to sign up to receive an alert for this Sunday's YouTube stream from 4pm BST/5pm CET. We present @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook in rare Italian songs as part of our Salon Series for emerging artists. More info here: opera-rara.com/event/youtub...htt

Happy Friday news from Opera Rara! Our final stream of the summer will go out next Sunday 31 August for one month. We present @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook in an Italian song recital recorded in London in May... Starting with Rossini's 'La regata veneziana': ow.ly/Z6lR50WK5YP

Join SongPath this autumn for an uplifting morning of song in the tranquil setting of Stanmer Park in Brighton 🌳🍂 With special guests Adrian Butterfield (violin) & Angela Hicks (soprano) 🎵 🌳 Sat 18 Oct 🪵 11am-1pm 🍄 Stanmer Park 🎵 £10 Brighton Early Music Festival www.bremf.org.uk/event/songpa...

Congratulating myself because I actually did a 'strength' workout 💪🏋️‍♀️ Normally I just run. Suggested routines welcome! Especially something simple doable at home for general health...Googling produces lots that are trying to sculpt a "bubble butt" - but I need no help with the size of my arse 😂

A song of heartbreak and revenge from the forests of Finland...🌲 Sibelius's "Kaiutar" from "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist @sholto.kynoch 🎧Listen now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube etc 💿Pre-order the album (out 5 Sep on @crdrecordsclassical) www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

A few autumn dates... 🎼31 Aug Opera Rara Salon Series: Italian Song recital (Stream of our recital from May) 💿5 Sep ALBUM RELEASE: Letters from Scandinavia CRD Records 🎵10 Oct Letters from Scandinavia Oxford International Song Festival cont...[1/2]

Welcome to our July newsletter - the one where we celebrate our 55th birthday and look ahead to the launch of our 55th season starting in September with two Donizetti Song volume releases - French and Italian songs - from Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi (pictured). Read here: ow.ly/O0hY50WpMsl

Look out for the stream of mine & Anna Tilbrook's Italian song recital later this summer. Recorded back in May, feat. Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti 📺 31st August, 4pm on the @operarara.bsky.social YouTube channel Read the Opera Rara newsletter here: ow.ly/O0hY50WpMsl

How much tea is too much tea...? (Asking for a friend) Obscenely delighted with new glass jars for my ever expanding loose-leaf collection ☕🫖

If you're dreaming of being by the sea in this weather, I've a song for you (about dreaming by the sea)🌊🐟🦀🐚🦐⛵ 🎧 Listen to "Sildig" by Agathe Backer Grøndahl, the latest single from my album "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist Sholto Kynoch 💿 Pre-order album: www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

So looking forward to kicking off the Oxford International Song Festival in the autumn with "Letters from Scandinavia" with the wonderful Sholto Kynoch (also celebrating our album, out on 5 Sep) 🎵🎉 Fri 10 October 1pm Holywell Music Room, Oxford oxfordsong.org/events/lette...

Before & After. Pre- and post- Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the @bristolbeacon.bsky.social with @bristolchoral.bsky.social & British Sinfonietta Hilary Campbell Susanna Fairbairn @petedavtenor.bsky.social & Frederick Long last night. What a piece! Also the backstage snacks were next level...🎵

Susanna Fairbairn and Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social perform Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with @bristolchoral.bsky.social,this evening, at the @bristolbeacon.bsky.social, conducted by Hillary Campbell. www.bristolchoral.co.uk/events

Looking forward to singing with this fabulous cast and the BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers in December! Reallylooking forward to being back with Opera Rara 😍 We'll also be recording it in November, including music from the rare Paris version, for all the Puccini fans (who isn't?) 📀

Looking forward to Beethoven "Missa Solemnis" tomorrow in Bristol with Bristol Choral Society & British Sinfonietta 🎵

Congratulations to CRD Records for a brilliant event yesterday with Bang & Olufsen celebrating 50 years🎂 And particularly amazing to hear a taster of "Letters from Scandinavia" in full 7.1 sound in the fancy 'sensorium'! Plus beautiful performance of Maya Magub duetting with herself in Telemann!🎻

Over 10,000 streams so far on the pre-release singles from Letters from Scandinavia!💿 Thank you so much for listening🥰 Latest single out yesterday & full album out 5 Sep. We're also performing live 10 Oct at Oxford International Song Festival 🎧LISTEN www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia

We are so excited to be performing with these four outstanding soloists #SusannaFairbairn @joannaharries.bsky.social #PeterDavoren #FreddieLong will join us and #britishsinfonietta and organist #TravisBaker for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis June 28. We can’t wait! bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/bri...

What a day to be outdoors, searching amongst the trees for our next SongPath route and finding inspiration for duetting with the birds...🌳 #BrightonEarlyMusicFestival #SongPath

Musicians! City Music Foundation applications open on 13 June - a great opportunity to fund & support a big project. Happy to answer questions about my time as a CMF artist if anyone is interested in applying 🥰 citymusicfoundation.org/apply-now/

Off to Brighton today, planning our most southerly SongPath yet! 🌳We're very much looking forward to exploring what is underfoot and overhead here as part of the wonderful Brighton Early Music Festival on Sat 18 October 🍂 🎼 www.bremf.org.uk/event/bremf-2025-love 🌿 songpath.co.uk

Don't miss our biggest concert this season! Hear us live at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social 28 June, performing the monumental Missa Solemnis by Beethoven. The full forces of the choir are joined by British Sinfonietta and quartet of soloists, under the baton of @hilaryjcampbell.bsky.social

Really looking forward to Beethoven Missa Solemnis with @bristolchoral.bsky.social #britishsinfonietta @joannaharries.bsky.social #susannafairbairn #peterdavoren #fredericklong. Join us at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social on 28 June.

Looking forward to my first Beethoven "Missa Solemnis" in a few weeks. Luckily we'll have the beautiful @bristolbeacon.bsky.social to fill with all that loud Beethoveny-ness...🎵 Sat 28 June, 7:30pm Bristol Beacon Bristol Choral Society British Sinfonietta www.bristolchoral.co.uk/dbpage.php?p...

Back from Clemenza di Tito at Gŵyl Beaumaris / Beaumaris Festival, featuring frock coats, Puffin Island, gorgeous coastlines and a very wet ascent up Snowdon on the way back. With a respectably battered score I say goodbye for now to Sesto ("Parto, parto...!")

Just some bluebells 🪻

Rehearsing Mozart this week, but I still have earworms from last week's lovely @operarara.bsky.social recital with Anna Tilbrook in my head of Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti 🎵

Rehearsals for this beast start today! Time to finally air those triplet runs 🎶

New single from "Letters from Scandinavia" out today! 🌿 GRIEG "Foraarsregn" 🌧️ 🎧 LISTEN 🎧 open.spotify.com/track/1QGuiK...

Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social performs a Salon Concert this evening for @operarara.bsky.social alongside pianist Anna Tilbrook. The programme includes newly discovered songs by Donizetti and his contemporaries, including rarely performed songs by women composers of the same era.

Little behind the scenes as we set up for filming with @operarara.bsky.social this morning 🎥 Anna Tilbrook playing heartbreaking Bellini beautifully - looking forward to our all-Italian recital tomorrow. Expect ardent longing, ghostly lovers & handsome gondoliers...🇮🇹 opera-rara.com/event/joanna...

Sent a little newsletter! ✍️ News of Opera Rara, Oxford International Song Festival, Brighton Early Music Festival, SongPath, Barbican... 🎵 Have a read of it here: mailchi.mp/0890656dfb8a...

Thank you to everyone who came to "Nightingale" at @stmartininthefields on Friday - music, poetry, birdsong, and the premiere of the new song cycle, created at Goodmayes Hospital with @_hospitalrooms, pianist @jongsunwoo, composer @alexgroves_ & our fantastic workshop participants 🐦

Brushing up on my Italian today for a recital of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini & Uccelli with the fab Anna Tilbrook on Thurs 🇮🇹 Also hugely looking forward to joining Opera Rara again later this year, singing Suzy & Lolette in Puccini's "La Rondine" at the Barbican with BBCSO & BBC Singers 🎵

Every year I forget how magical spring blossoms are. Look at these beauties 🌸

Home to find a proof copy of "Letters from Scandinavia" 😍

What better Easter treat than when your accommodation includes these two goodest boys (and a post-concert cheeseboard last night!) Travelling back from Beverley full of Bach, cheese, dogs and love 😍

Bound northwards with Matthew today 🎵

Looking forward to a smörgåsbord of lovely music over the next couple of weeks 🤩 Bach, Mozart, the chance to do some Italian song rep (Rossini/Bellini/Donizetti/Uccelli) and our Nightingale programme featuring Howells and a new song cycle by @alexgroves_