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Joanne Evans

Mezzo-soprano

London-born mezzo-soprano Joanne Evans is a graduate of the 2023 Merola Opera Program and the 2024 Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where she was awarded Le Prix des Amis for Voice.

The 2026–27 season includes a leading role in a new production of George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill at the Opéra Comique and the role of Dodo McNeill in the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s critically acclaimed Breaking the Waves with English National Opera. She also joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra for George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence, conducted by Edward Gardner, and the Charlotte Symphony for performances of Handel’s Messiah.

The 2025–26 season featured a performance of George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Tokyo Spring Festival, as well as two mainstage appearances with Opera San José as Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Flora in Verdi’s La traviata. She also returned to the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, in partnership with the Ear Taxi Festival, to present a concert of newly commissioned vocal music. In the summer of 2024, she was a fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, after which she traveled to Aldeburgh, England to join the Britten Pears Young Artist Program for contemporary composition. Evans then attended the bel canto Voice Academy at Fondation des Treilles, and performed the role of Flora in La traviata with Annapolis Opera.

As a Vocal Fellow at Music Academy of the West, Evans sang the role of Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and was named winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2022. She is a proud alumna of the Artist-in-Residence program at Opera Colorado, where her mainstage performances included the role of Maddalena in a student matinee of Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Lucienne in Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt. Elsewhere in 2022, Evans placed first in the Handel Aria Competition and was a Boston District winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She is a beneficiary of a Career Bridges grant and also received awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Premiere Opera Foundation.

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