KOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
Offenbach – Orpheus in the Underworld, Eurydice
Oct 10/17/24/30, Nov 7/13/20, Dec 11/21, 2026
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, LISBON
Puzzles and Games
October 16, 2026
LUXEMBOURG PHILHARMONIC
Evers - The Snow Queen, Snow Queen (New Production)
January 31, 2027
CHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA
Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem, Soprano
March 20/21, 2027
BERN STAGES
Nemtsov – Ophelia's Wing, Second Ophelia (World Premiere, New Production)
June 6/13/15/22/27, 2027
Bern Symphony Orchestra
Orff – Carmina Burana, Soprano
June 24/25/26, 2027
GERMAN OPERA ON THE RHINE
Monteverdi – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Fortuna / Minerva
July 2027

Biography

Following the overwhelming success of her role debut as Lulu, the “magnificent soprano” (FAZ) Juliana Zara was nominated for the prestigious German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”, and for her interpretation of Bubikopf in a recording of The Emperor of Atlantis with the Munich Radio Orchestra for the Opus Klassik as “Singer of the Year”.

In the 2026/27 season, she will appear as Eurydice in Barry Kosky's acclaimed production of Orpheus in the Underworld at the Komische Oper Berlin. This season, she continues her intensive engagement with modern and contemporary music, appearing in two world premieres: the title role in Leonard Evers's The Snow Queen at the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Ophelia 2 in Sarah Nemtsov's Ophelia's Wing at the Bühnen Bern. She will also perform Unsuk Chin's Puzzles and Games with the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, a contemporary work with which she has already enjoyed success at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Further concert engagements include Ralph Vaughan Williams's Dona Nobis Pacem with the Chattanooga Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, and a tour with concerts in Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon.

She made her home debut at the start of the 2025/26 season. Theater an der Wien As the Cheshire Cat in Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland and in concert performances of Wagner's Ring Cycle, she made her role debut as Woglinde with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Patrick Hahn. Further highlights of the 2025/26 season included her house debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen as Sœur Constance in Barrie Kosky's production of Dialogues des Carmélites and her debut in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Earl Lee. She also performed Unsuk Chin's Puzzles and Games again, this time with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Enrico Onofri at the Prinzregententheater.

In previous seasons, Juliana appeared as Shoko in Thomas Larcher's Das Jagdgewehr at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Dutch National Theatre, and as the Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opernhaus Zürich to experience. She also made her house debut at the Theater Bonn as Adina in L'elisir d'amore and returned for a revival She returned to the Darmstadt State Theatre in the same role. Most recently, she sang Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos.

In the concert arena, Juliana sang in a New Year's gala with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, premiered Matias Vestergård's melodrama with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, and gave a recital with pianist Marlene Heiss at the Berlin Philharmonie. She also appeared as the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland on the radio. Philharmonic She performed with the Orkest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and made her North American debut at Carnegie Hall with the Sejong Soloists, where she performed Chin's Puzzles and Games .

A passionate interpreter of contemporary music, Juliana Zara has performed György Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and played the lead role in the world premieres of Fabià Santcovsky's Transstimme at the Munich Biennale and Miroslav Srnka's Singularity at the Bavarian State Opera. She also debuted as Tinkerbell in the world premiere of Frank Schwemmer's Peter Pan with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and took on the title role in the world premiere of Stefan Wirth's Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring at the [venue name missing]. Opernhaus Zürich .

From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, where she portrayed Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann and Morgana in Alcina , among other roles.
From 2019 to 2021 she was a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera, where she was able to develop a broad repertoire, including Frasquita ( Carmen ), Philine ( Mignon ) and Mercedes ( Schön ist die Welt ).
She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.
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