Joanna’s time at the Studio is generously supported by The Lionel Anthony Charitable Trust
Born in New Zealand and raised in Wales, mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at Cambridge University and trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Alexander Gibson Opera Studio).
Her opera roles stretch from baroque to contemporary opera, including Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Varvara (Kat’a Kabanova), The Drummer (The Emperor of Atlantis) and the title role in Holst’s Sāvitri. She has performed with Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Longborough Festival Opera and British Youth Opera.
As concert soloist her performances include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at Snape Maltings Concert Hall; Macmillan’s Seven Last Words From The Cross with the BBC Philharmonic at Harrogate Royal Hall; Bach’s Easter Oratorio at the Bach Festival Świdnica in Poland and Handel’s Messiah at Lincoln Cathedral.
A keen recitalist, Joanna has performed song and Lieder at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Oxford Lieder, the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings, Pushkin House and the National Portrait Gallery. A Britten-Pears Young Artist, Handel House Talent artist and Opera Prelude Young Artist, Joanna is also an Emerging Artist for the Royal Opera House’s “Opera Dots” programme for children.
Joanna holds a Sybil Tutton Opera Award (supported by Help Musicians) and a Tait Memorial Trust Award.
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Updated January 2022. This biography should not be reproduced without asking permission from the National Opera Studio.
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