In August/September 2019 Joanna will be performing a number of roles in British Youth Opera‘s production of David Blake and Keith Warner’s Scoring a Century. This London premiere of the opera is a multi-role production, which sees the small cast take on over 50 roles as one couple journey through the entire twentieth century. Librettist …
Joanna’s summer 2019 performances include Hänsel und Gretel with Grange Park Opera, a revival of Welsh National Opera‘s production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace at the Royal Opera House in London, and Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Britten Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia Voices conducted by Thomas Adès at St Andrew’s Halls, Norwich and the Barbican …
Later this year, Joanna joins Welsh National Opera for their production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace, directed by David Pountney and conducted by Tomáš Hanus. Performances begin in Cardiff in September, and tour throughout October and November to Birmingham, Oxford, Llandudno and Southampton.
This summer Joanna will be performing in a special project with Opera Holland Park and the British Red Cross Trust. Refuge in Harmony is a new opera devised by 40 unaccompanied minors – young refugees and asylum seekers – working with composer Laura Bowler and director Ruth Mariner. The final performance takes place on 22 …
Joanna recently appeared as Jenny Hildebrand in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, directed by Alexandra Spencer-Jones and conducted by Robert Houssart. These will be her last performances before graduating from the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio this summer.
This week the production of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis opens at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in which Joanna plays Der Trommler (the Drummer). Written in the Nazi concentration camp Terezin (Theresienstadt), Ullmann’s opera was banned and never performed there. Before Ullmann was transported to Auschwitz, where he died in 1944, he left …
In December, Joanna will be performing as one of the six nuns in Scottish Opera’s production of Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel. The concert performance will take place at Glasgow’s City Halls on 3 December 2017.
The new opera Fever Pitch opens this Friday 22 September at the Union Chapel in London. Based on the celebrated book by Nick Hornby about his obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club, the new opera by composer Scott Stroman has been featured in the Sunday Times, and on BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, and ITV News. Joanna …
Joanna has been cast as one of the four principals in a new opera based on Nick Hornby‘s iconic memoir Fever Pitch. The opera will premiere in September 2017 at the Union Chapel in Highbury, with Robin Bailey, Nick Allen and Rob Gildon in the other roles. Produced by Highbury Opera Theatre, with music by …
This month Joanna returns for her second season at Opera Holland Park, performing in Janacek’s Kát’a Kabanová and Leoncavallo’s rarely staged opera Zazà. Performaces run from 15 – 29 July: JANACEK Kát’a Kabanová 15, 19, 21, 26 & 28 July – 8pm City of London Sinfonia, Olivia Fuchs (director), Sian Edwards (conductor) LEONCAVALLO Zazà 18, …