Julia Mintzer
Die amerikanische Sopranistin gehört sicher zu den interessantesten Sängerinnen der aktuellen Szenerie. Nach dem Studium in den USA gehört sie von 2013 bis 15 dem Jungen Ensemble der Semperoper Dresden.
Weitere Engagements führten sie an die Opernhäuser von Boston, Dayton und Washington sowie zum Glimmerglass-Festival. Von 2016 bis 2018 sang sie am Theater Flensburg die Partien der Carmen, Elisabetta in "Maria Stuarda" und 2017/18 Santuzza in "Cavalleria rusticana" sowie Giulietta in "Hoffmanns Erzählungen".
Wechsel ins dramatische Sopran-Fach
2018 übernahm sie am Theater Aachen die Partien der Elisabetta in "Maria Stuarda" und der Preciosilla in Verdis "La forza del destino". 2019/20 folgte ein weiteres Engagement als Carmen an der Welsh Natinal Opera in Cardiff.
Zusehends zeichnete sich eine Entwicklung ins dramatische Sopranfach ab. Die Jahre der Corona-Epidemie nutzte sie schließlich zu einem Fachwechsel.
zwischen Salome und zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Oper
2021/22 sang sie die Titelpartie in "Therése Raquin" von Tobias Picker im Theater an der Wien. 2022 sang sie die Titelpartie in Richard Strauss´ Oper "Salome" an der Tulsa Opera. Im September 2022 kehrte sie an die Dresdner Semperoper zurück und übernahm die Partie Glück in "Chasing waterfalls" von Angus Lee.
Neben ihrer sängerischen Tätigkeit führt Julia Mintzer regelmäßig Regie.
Julia Mintzer
Julia Mintzer enjoys a varied career in standard and contemporary repertoire in the United States and Europe. She has performed principal roles at Washington National Opera, Die Semperoper Dresden, and The Glimmerglass Festival. Last season she joined the Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein to sing the title role in Carmen and Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda, returning this season for Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana and Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffman before reprising the title role in Carmen at the Theater Lüneburg. .
Julia was member of the Junges Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden from 2013-15 and a young artist at the Washington National Opera from 2012-13. In 2015-16 she returned to Washington National Opera as Hansel and to the Dresden Semperoper as Mercédès. Her previous roles for the Dresden Semperoper include the leading role in Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren, Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte); Flora, The Page (Salome); Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Emma May in the world premiere of Tsangaris's Karl May: Raum der Wahrheit. At the Washington National Opera, her roles were Hansel, Clotilde (Norma) and Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena – WNO Opera Insight, Kennedy Center). She sang the first staged performance of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2013.
Also an accomplished stage director, Julia is is the 2017 Winner of the National Opera Association’s JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Directing Fellowship. She has staged Fidelio at Princeton University with Grand Harmonie Period Orchestra in 2016 and La Bohème for Metrowest Opera in 2017, lauded by The Theater Times as "a highly energetic, fascinating production." Her interactive theater piece Pizza Parlance was listed in Nombre Art Magazine's "5 Must-Sees of Venice Biennale” and she has directed and developed new works at the Helsinki Festival and Cornell University.
Julia graduated from The Juilliard School and the Boston University Opera Institute. She sang the title role in La Tragédie de Carmen and Stephano in Roméo et Juliette with Dayton Opera before joining the Apprentice Program at Santa Fe Opera. She appeared as Petra in A Little Night Music at The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice and Suzuki with Florentine Opera. Her concert engagements include Handel's Messiah with Boston Baroque, Washington National Cathedral, the Toledo Symphony and Seraphic Fire and Mozart's Requiem at Washington National Cathedral and with Grand Harmonie Period Orchestra.