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 - 2020), English National Opera (Chorus - 2020), Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Heidelberger Frühling Festival; ENO / Lillian Baylis House; Opera Holland Park; Iford Opera; Royal Academy Opera; Aldeburgh Music; Chipping Camden International Music Festival; St Martin-in-the-Fields; St John’s Smith Square and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

She was a finalist in the International Haydn Singing Competition (Austria) and the Nico Dostal International Singing Competition (Austria). She was a winner of the Elena Gehardt Lieder Prize (RAM).

In 2022, Iúnó performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and was awarded third prize at the G.Fraschini International Singing Competition in Italy. She also made her Haydn role debut with England’s “foremost classical opera company”, Bampton Classical Opera. In summer of 2023 Iúnó returned to Bampton to sing the role of Cristallina in the UK Premiere of Salieri’s “La Fiera di Venezia” which culminated in a performance at St John’s Smith Square, London.

Recent and forthcoming engagements include the Riyadh Film Music Festival in Saudi Arabia; soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Brahm’s Requiem, Poulenc Stabat Mater and Haydn’s Creation.

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.