Julia Katherine Walsh

Julia Katherine Walsh, Soprano, most recently performed the roles of Königin der Nacht in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and the Taufee and Sandmann in Humperdinck's Hänsel & Gretel in Munich and Stuttgart, Germany with the Freies Landestheater Bayern. She has participated in Masterclasses with Margo Garrett in the 2020 NATS Winter Workshop in NYC, and at the 2017 & 2016 Schubertiade with Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen, and with Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger, in Schwarzenberg, and Hohenems, Austria. She has also performed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the Richard-Strauss- Festival's 2016 and 2014 Masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager, and Brigitte Fassbaender and Michelle Breedt. She has performed many solo recitals in and around Munich and Straubing, Germany, as well as in New York City, Princeton, Philadelphia, Reading, and Allentown, and received critics’ praise for her technical vocal mastery and her believable interpretations. She is a champion of the music of women composers as well as the lesser-known works of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss. She's enjoyed operatic successes in both the USA and Germany, singing the roles of Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Theater Lünen, Oper Schloss Laubach), Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Junge Oper Detmold, IVAI), Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Oscar in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (Center City Opera Theater), and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Charlottesville Opera), and in concert she’s sung Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos.