SINGER and DIRECTOR
Julia Mintzer won rave reviews in the title role of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin at Theater an der Wien. She has been heard as Salome in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and with Tulsa Opera, and sang her first Tosca at Theater Sankt Gallen. She returned to the Dresden Semperoper for the world premiere of Chasing Waterfalls.
She has sung leading roles with Washington National Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, and directed and developed performances at the Venice Biennale, the Helsinki Festival, the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art, and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.
An alumn of the Royal Opera House’s Engender Network Mentorship Programme, she made her German directorial debut at Landesbühnen Sachsen with Amahl und die Nächtlichen Besucher and just directed a critically acclaimed Jekyll & Hyde for the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater.
Julia made her UK debuts onstage as Carmen with Welsh National Opera and offstage with two Off West End Nominations.
Norddeutscher Rundfunk goes backstage with Julia Mintzer’s new production of Jekyll & Hyde
Bolcom’s monodrama Medusa with Boston Modern Orchestra Project
“The savior of the evening was American soprano Julia Mintzer... shining with an intense portrayal ...the result was harrowing and vocally impressive. Everything was just right. She was rightly celebrated.”
Salome with Tulsa Opera
“Mintzer, who was making her debut in the role of Salome, was from start to finish extraordinary. This was a fearless, fully inhabited performance that required her to span her entire vocal range in addition to evoking all manner of dark emotions, and Mintzer sang with power, precision and nuance.”