Draft:Juliana Zara

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

Early life and education
Zara grew up in Oxnard in Ventura County, California. She attended Oxnard High School, where in 2019 she won several prizes with the Vocal Ensemble at the Heritage Festival in New York. 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. 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. After this, Zara studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler with Anna Korondi, where she completed her Masters in 2020.

Career
Parallel to her studies she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera. 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, as well as Bubikopf in a concert performance of Der Kaiser von Atlantis. 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, in 2022 as Alice in Anno Schreiers children’s opera Wunderland and Pedro in Massenets Don Quichotte, in 2022-2023 as Zerlina in Mozarts Don Giovanni, and in 2023 the title role in Alban Bergs Lulu.

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).