Soprano Iúnó Connolly has performed at various venues in the UK and internationally including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Ensemble - A New Dark Age), English National Opera (Chorus - Carmen), Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Philharmonie de Paris; 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). She is an alumna of the Britten Pears Young Artist Foundation, British Youth Opera and a Bach/Kohn Foundation Scholar. 

Recent engagements include performances at Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland; Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestra de Paris and Le Concert d'Astrée; the Schubert Society of Britain; The Victor Hugo Society at St James’s Concert Hall, Guernsey (Channel Islands); the Riyadh Film Music Festival (Saudi Arabia) and the Bristol Cathedral Recital Series.

Iúnó studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (BMus Hons), Conservatorio di G.Frescobaldi, Ferrara and at the Royal Academy of Music (MA DipRAM). She is a Britten Pears and British Youth Opera alumna.

She trains with Maestro Antonio Lemmo.

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