Joan Rodgers, one of the leading sopranos of her generation achieved international recognition in the fields of opera, concert and recital.
She has appeared with conductors including Solti, Barenboim, Mehta, Harnoncourt, Mackerras, Ashkenazy, Salonen and Rattle and has been a
regular guest at the BBC Proms. Operatic highlights have included engagements at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne in Britain, Paris, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam and Vienna in Europe, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Joan also appeared in concert and recital throughout Europe and the USA including London, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Her recordings include Mozart’s da Ponte trilogy with Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic, The Turn of the Screw (Virgin), solo discs of
Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Wolf (Hyperion), The Creation (Philips), Rachmaninov songs with Howard Shelley (Chandos) and Shostakovich Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok with the Beaux Arts Trio (Warner Classics) and a recording of songs by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich and Britten (Hyperion).

Joan Rodgers received the Royal Philharmonic Society award as Singer of the Year for 1997, the 1997 Evening Standard Award for outstanding
performance in opera for her performance as The Governess in the Royal Opera’s production of The Turn of the Screw and in July 2005 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Liverpool University. Joan Rodgers was awarded the CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List
She enjoys working with young singers at the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban and Samling Academy and gives regular masterclasses in the UK and abroad.