Mezzo-Soprano, JULIA POWERS, is an adaptive artist of opera and choral repertoire. Since relocating in 2022, she is quickly rising in the Los Angeles Opera community. During the 2023-2024 season she sang with Independent Opera Company, New Opera West, and Mission Opera. She also joined the roster of The Opera Buffs Inc. and was a 2024 recipient of their Artist Development Grant. She has become a regular performer in the Monterey Bay Area with I Cantori di Carmel. She began with the company as a YOUNG ARTIST SOLOIST in their December 2022 performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and returned to the company in April 2023 as the ALTO SOLOIST in Mozart’s Requiem and in April 2024 and as a CHAMBER VOCALIST in the first performance of their Central Coast Chamber Choir Bach and Buxtehude concert series.
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Ms. Powers is looking forward to returning to Mission Opera this October as MYRTIS in their production of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree. Looking ahead to Spring of 2025 she will join the Los Angeles Master Chorale for their collaboration with the Colburn School on Mahler's Symphony No. 2 as the finale of the Mahlerthon Part Two Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall and their GALA 2025 to be held at the Marciano Art Foundation in March. In April, she debuts with Guild Opera Co as THIIRD WITCH in their production of Verdi's Macbeth.
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Prior to California, Ms. Powers was based in the Desert Southwest. During that time, she was a featured soloist and member of the Grammy-Winning chamber ensemble, Phoenix Chorale, as well as the Tucson-based Helios Ensemble. She joined the Arizona Opera Chorus family in 2020 for their performances of Puccini’s beloved opera, La Bohème. Shortly thereafter she performed MUSETTE in Leoncavallo's La Bohème in concert with Passion Project: Opera!, a rising company for unusual works in Tucson.
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Other recent performances include , MARGOT in The Merry Widow, ALISA in Lucia di Lammermoor, Salonen’s Karawane and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé with LA Master Chorale in collaboration with LA Phil, PRINCESS NICOLETTA in The Love for Three Oranges, Opera Cecilia’s virtual Crossover Cabaret YouTube series, COUNTESS CEPRANO in Rigoletto, La Regata Veneziana in VIRTUAL RECITAL with Mousaverse, ALTO SOLOIST in Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia with Phoenix Chorale featured in the VOCES8 Foundation LIVE FROM LONDON festival series, VOICE #7 in Thomas Tallis' 40-part work Spem in Alium with Phoenix Chorale, MISS TODD in The Old Maid and the Thief and LIVY CLEMENS in the world premiere of Harmony by Russell Banks and Robert Carl with Seagle Festival.
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She holds a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Stephen F. Austin State University and a master’s degree in Vocal Performance from Baylor University. During her time at Baylor, she made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall as a FINALIST of the Baylor Semper Pro Musica Competition, and was named Outstanding Graduate in Voice.
