Soprano Iúnó Connolly has performed at various venues in the UK and abroad including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Ensemble - A New Dark Age), English National Opera (Chorus), Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Heidelberger Frühling Festival; ENO / Lillian Baylis House; Opera Holland Park; Iford Opera; Royal Academy Opera and Aldeburgh Music, Snape Maltings. As a soloist, Iúnó has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, NY; Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Italy; Teatro G. Fraschini, Italy; Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland; St Martin-in-the-Field’s, London; St John Smith’s Square, London; Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Bampton Classical Opera; Chipping Camden International Music Festival and the Northern Aldborough Festival.

She was a prize winner at the 2023 Concorso Internazionale di Canto Voci Nuove per La Lirica G. Fraschini (Italy); a finalist in both the International Haydn Singing Competition (Austria) and the Nico Dostal International Singing Competition (Austria). She was also a winner of the Elena Gehardt Lieder Prize (RAM).

Recent and forthcoming engagements include as a soloist at Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland); St James’s, Guernsey (Channel Islands); the Schubert Society of Britain; the Riyadh Film Music Festival (Saudi Arabia) and as an oratorio soloist for Brahm’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Creation and Haydn Nelson Mass. 

Iúnó studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (BMus Hons) and the Royal Academy of Music (MA DipRAM). She is a Britten Pears and British Youth Opera alumna. She trains with Maestro Antonio Lemmo.