Juliana Zara

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Born (1993-04-16) April 16, 1993 (age 31)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationOpera Singer

Juliana Zara (born 16 April, 1993) is an American opera singer.[1]

Early life and education

Zara grew up in Oxnard in Ventura County, California.[2] She attended Oxnard High School, where in 2019 she won several prizes with the Vocal Ensemble at the Heritage Festival in New York.[3] She studied with scholarship at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, part of the University of California, Irvine, before she changed to Oberlin Conservatory of Music in August 2013.[4] There, she earned her Bachelor of Music in 2016, and took part in Marilyn Horne’s Master Class, from which she won the Rubin Scholarship, a financial endowment to support career development.[5] After this, Zara studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler with Anna Korondi,[6] where she completed her Masters in 2020.[7]

Career

Parallel to her studies she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera.[6] In Munich she sang, amongst other roles, in the world-premiere of the opera Singularity by Miroslav Srnka, Frasquita in Carmen, and Transstimme by Fabia Santcovsky at the Munich Biennale,[8] as well as Bubikopf in a concert performance of Der Kaiser von Atlantis.[9] In June 2023, she was nominated for Opus Klassik Singer of the Year for her work on Der Kaiser von Atlantis.

Zara has been a member of the ensemble at Staatstheaters Darmstadt since the 2021-2022 season. In 2021 she sang as Daisy in the operetta Ball im Savoy,[10] in 2022 as Alice in Anno Schreiers children’s opera Wunderland and Pedro in Massenets Don Quichotte,[11][12] in 2022-2023 as Zerlina in Mozarts Don Giovanni,[13] and in 2023 the title role in Alban Bergs Lulu.[14]

Discography

  • Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Adrian Eröd, Lars Woldt, Johannes Chum, Juliana Zara, Tareq Nazmi, Christel Loetzsch, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Dirigent: Patrick Hahn (BR-Klassik, 2022).

References

  1. "Juliana Zara, Sopran | Biografie". Operabase (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. "Oberlin Sinfonietta: Timothy Weiss, conductor; Kirsten Docter '92, viola; Juliana Zara '17, soprano". oberlin.edu. 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  3. John Cressy (2009-05-13). "Oxnard High Vocal Ensemble takes three firsts in New York". Ventura County Star. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  4. Taylor Field (2013-12-13). "Transfers Experience Anxiety, Isolation". The Oberlin Review. pp. 2, 4. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  5. Erich Burnett (2017-02-07). "Opera Legend Marilyn Horne Returns to Oberlin in February". oberlin.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Zara Juliana - Bayerische Staatsoper". staatsoper.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  7. "Juliana Zara Ensemblemitglied am Staatstheater Darmstadt". hfm-berlin.de. 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  8. "Transstimme". 2020.muenchner-biennale.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  9. "Sonntagskonzert mit dem Münchner Rundfunkorchester". br-klassik.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  10. "Ball im Savoy". staatstheater-darmstadt.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  11. "Wunderland". staatstheater-darmstadt.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  12. "Don Quichotte". staatstheater-darmstadt.de. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  13. Judith von Sternburg (2022-10-11). "„Don Giovanni" in Darmstadt: Augenblicke des Glücks". Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  14. Axel Zibulski (2023-03-23). "Die Frau als Geheimnis". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2023-07-07.

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