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Short Bio Julia Araújo

Julia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was always involved in singing from an early age. Her first approach was when she was selected to participate in a children’s TV singing show at the age  of 12. At the age of 14 and 15 she also participated in a children’s theater play where she danced and sung as well. She would always be surrounded with all kinds of music but her classical influence  comes mostly from her Grandmother. They both would listen to Opera and Zarzuela together after  Julia came from school, and it all began there. With her Grandfather she would spend hours  listening to Tango, one of the countries’s representative music genres. Her mum was also a big influence in Julia’s varied taste in music.

At the age of 16 she was at her guitar lesson and her teacher discovered her voice and took her to  what would then be her singing teacher for 3 years, so she could hear her. She carefully began to be  trained in classical singing and at the age of 18, she was accepted at the State music school “Vicente Ascone” to begin her Bachelor studies in classical singing.

Since then she started singing in most major concert halls and theaters from her country. She was  working in Sodre, Adela Reta (one of Uruguay’s major theaters) at the age of 22, where she was getting her first solo role possibilities.

In 2016 she won the 1st prize in an important competition in her country called “Luis Sambucetti”. In 2017 she began her Opera master’s studies in the Music school for theater and music “Felix  Mendelssohn Bartholdy”in Leipzig, Germany.

In 2020 she did her official European debut with the role of Micaela from the Opera Carmen at the  Massimo Bellini theater in Catania, Italy.

In 2021 she received a full scholarship to participate 2 weeks in the Lotte Lehmann Academy where she had the chance to work with great professionals.

Since 2022 she was offered an engagement at the theater in Gießen, Hessen in Germany where she  has sung major leading roles such as Caterina Cornaro (Donizetti), Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito,  Tatjana in Eugen Onegin, Helena in Mid summer night’s dream, Atalanta in Xerxes, Leonora in Il  Trovatore, among others.

She was nominated young artist dicovery of the year 2022/2023 by the Frankfurter Rundschau  (nominated by Judith von Sternburg) in the important Opera magazine “Opernwelt”.