Julia Kleiter

Julia Kleiter was born in Limburg an der Lahn and in 2004 made her debut at Paris’s Opéra Bastille as Pamina. During the ensuing ten years she sang this role for numerous productions in Madrid, Zurich, New York and Munich, and also at the Salzburg Festival, under the musical direction of conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Claudio Abbado, Ádám Fischer and Philippe Jordan.

Helmuth Rilling, Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Philippe Herreweghe, Giovanni Antonini and Marek Janowski are among the other conductors with whom Julia Kleiter has worked during her career. She has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Daniel Barenboim in Berlin, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in Munich, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Vienna, Dvořák’s Requiem in Berlin and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri in Frankfurt and Zurich. She has also been heard in London in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, at La Scala, Milan, and in Berlin in Haydn’s Creation, and in Munich under Zubin Mehta in Bruckner’s Te Deum.

Julia Kleiter has appeared as Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under John Eliot Gardiner, and recently also at La Scala, Milan, under Daniel Harding. She has also appeared at La Scala as Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz and Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo. Other recent highlights include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Hamburg State Opera and at the Elbphilharmonie, and Eva in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under Daniel Barenboim in Berlin and under Philippe Jordan in Paris.

While her role debut as Arabella in 2020 under Fabio Luisi in Zurich could not take place, she made up for it with her role debut as the Countess in Capriccio in 2021, and this autumn will make her role debut as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in Brussels.

In the 2021/22 season she sang in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s opera Eurydice – Die Liebenden, blind at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and appeared at the Semperoper in Dresden as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. In addition, Julia Kleiter has been heard in numerous recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, in Paris, Madrid, Munich and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.

Julia Kleiter performs regularly with the pianists Michael Gees and Julius Drake, and at venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Philharmonie Essen. On the concert stage in the current season, she has performed with Christian Gerhaher in Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie under the baton of Christian Thielemann in Dresden, Vienna and Paris, and sung Maurice Ravel’s Shéhérazade under Sylvain Cambreling at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

Her artistic career is documented in numerous CDs and DVDs, including most recently a recording of Lieder by Franz Liszt with pianist Julius Drake.