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!

🎥 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

No more X / Twitter for me, I’ve deactivated my account this morning. The volume of right wing poison on there is jaw-dropping, and totally beyond the pale. I’m mainly over on Instagram, if you want to follow me there (@jjohnstonmezzo).

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

A note for young singers about reviews and critics (I get asked about this all the time).

A monumental Eighth from Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam's Mahler Festival ✍️ Clare Varney bachtrack.com/review-makel...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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/...

‘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…

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

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

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. 🧵

‘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...

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 🧵

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

And that doesn’t even include the impact on touring musicians. David Cameron and his crew should hang their heads in shame.

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.

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

A dazzling sunset on my freezing evening walk.

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

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.

Happy New Year!

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.

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

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

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. 🧵

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.

Campaign for the Arts (CFTA) has launched an open call for information about new proposed cuts to council arts budgets as local authorities set their budgets for next year amid warnings that their spending on arts has more than halved since 2010. https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/public-urged…

“To maintain stability” 😳

Please wish @streetwiseopera.bsky.social a very Happy Christmas by making a donation to their emergency appeal here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/sta...

NEW: For those of you that missed it, here's that Kemi Badenoch Spectator article in full.

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.

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