Julie Adams, makes her West Bay Opera debut as Mimi in
La bohème. She's a winner of the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 2015 George London Award, 2015 Elizabeth Connell prize for aspiring dramatic sopranos, and recipient of a 2015 Sara Tucker Study Grant. Upcoming engagements include Anna (Silent Night
- Kevin Puts) with Arizona Opera; Mimi with Des Moines Metro Opera; and orchestral concerts with Phoenix Symphony and Oakland East Bay Symphony. During the 2017–2018 season she returned to San Francisco Opera for Wagner’s
Ring, singing Freia in
Das Rheingold and Gehilde in
Die Walküre. Additional engagements include the Countess in
Le nozze di Figaro at Michigan Opera Theatre and Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire- Previn) at Opera Idaho. Highlights at San Francisco Opera include Mimì, Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Kristina (The Makropulos Case), Cesira in the world premiere of Marco Tutino’s
La ciociara, and understudying both Eva (Die Meistersinger) and
Jenůfa.
She has sung Mimì and Anna (Silent Night) with Opera San Jose; Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire)
at the 2014 Merola Program; Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodige
at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte
at the Music Academy of the West; Magnolia (Show Boat)
and Rose (Street Scene)
with the Oakland East Bay Symphony; and Fiordiligi, Blanche (Les Dialogues des Carmélites) and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi)
at the San Francisco Conservatory. Her lieder, oratorio and orchestral repertoire includes works by Barber, Strauss, Previn, Ponchielli, Chausson, Haydn, Brahms, Vivaldi and Joseph Marx.A native of Burbank, California, Ms. Adams holds both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she was awarded the Phyllis C Wattis Memorial Scholarship.