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“Martin Pearlman produces sonorous and spirited results imbued with the soul of the composer.” “Pearlman draws vivid and dramatic playing from his admirable group...so compelling and so powerful...” “Under the direction of Martin Pearlman, these superb musicians performed with taste, skill and sophistication.” |
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About Julia Mintzer
Ms. Mintzer recently sang the role of Dorabella with Boston University's Opera Institute, and reprised the role of Tiresias in Marjorie Merryman’s Antigone with the InCite Festival in New York City. Other operatic appearances include Susan B. Anthony in The Mother of Us All (Juilliard Opera Workshop) and Elle in La Voix Humaine (Chautauqua Institution), Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti (Opera Institute), Meg Page in Falstaff (Crested Butte Music Festival) and Marianne in Verse of Fortune, a world premiere by Noa Ain. Julia was a Studio Artist with the Wolf Trap Opera Company, where she sang Oasis in L'Étoile, and Sesto in excerpts from La Clemenza di Tito. In concert, she has appeared with Opera Boston, Opera for Humanity, the Kennet Symphony, The [Plain] Song, Queens College Symphony Orchestra, and at Alice Tully Hall, in repertoire ranging from Bach and Haydn to Shostakovich and Weill. She was invited back to the Hot Springs Music Festival this season to sing Song of the Wood Dove from Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Chausson’s Chanson Perpétuelle. This season holds six concerts with Seraphic Fire in Miami, and several performances of Mohammed Fairouz’s new work, Furia, at Columbia University and with Ensemble 212. Ms. Mintzer has given full recitals for New Triad for Collaborative Arts, and the Austrian American Society, in whose Music Competition she won First Prize. She was a finalist in the American Bach Society Vocal Competition, and is selected to participate in the Rachmaninoff Vocal Competition in April of 2011. Julia received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, where she was awarded Presidential Distinction. Also active as a director, Ms. Mintzer has staged multiple scenes programs for Opera for Humanity and the Tanglewood Institute, and is currently directing Il Tabarro for Garden State Opera. |
Hailed as "rich-sounding and sultry" by the Montreal Gazette and by The Bostonist for her "brooding, seductive mezzo" and "immediate and vivid" performance, Julia Mintzer is finding a niche in contemporary and twentieth century works while continuing to establish herself in the standard repertoire. She performed the title role in Tobias Picker's new opera Thérèse Raquin with the Boston University Opera Institute (New England premiere), and Carmen in La Tragédie de Carmen at the Hot Springs Music Festival. She reprised the role of Carmen at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Montreal, to which La Presse wrote: "The American Julia Mintzer…is a true Carmen: extremely sensual, with the grace of a serpent, the violence of a tiger, and a mezzo of penetrating depth."