Biography

Italian soprano Giulia Montanari studied musicology and languages at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and singing at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar in the class of Prof. Siegfried Gohritz. In June 2018, she won two prizes at the International Singing Competition in Imola, Italy.
While still a student, she began her career at the German National Theatre in Weimar, making her debut in the role of Papagena in The Magic Flute, followed by Sandmann and Taumann in the new production of Hansel and Gretel and a leading role in the world premiere of Der Eisblumenwald by Jörn Arnecke.

In the 2019/20 season, she was selected for the NRW Opera Studio Programme and made guest appearances in various roles and concerts at the Dortmund Opera, the Wuppertal Opera and the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen. In 2019, she was also engaged as the Queen of the Night at the ‘Festival der Deutschen Sprache’ in Bad Lauchstädt under the patronage of Edda Moser and appeared as Rosita in Offenbach's Un mari à la porte at the Essen Philharmonic.

In the 2020/21 season, she became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, where she sang the roles of Euridice/Orfeo ed Euridice, Adele/Die Fledermaus, Sandrina/La finta giardiniera, Belinda and the First Witch/Dido and Aeneas, and Fiakermilli/Arabella, among others.

As an enthusiastic concert soloist, she can be heard performing a wide range of song and oratorio repertoire, from early Baroque compositions to contemporary music: Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Telemann's St Luke Passion, Orff's Carmina Burana and Rutter's Requiem.

Following her passion for Baroque music, she has appeared at the Festival du Périgord Noir with Stradella's San Giovanni Battista and in Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, among others, and has also sung at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart.

In her young career, Giulia Montanari has already worked with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Stefan Parkman, Anu Tali, Mariss Jansons, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Dijkstra, Hans-Christoph Rademann, François-Xavier Roth, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Andrea Sanguineti, Matteo Beltrami, Rubén Dubrovsky, Marc Minkowski, Marc Albrecht, Tomáš Netopil and directors such as Guy Joosten, Roland Schwab, Ben Baur, Johannes Erath, Cecilia Ligorio, Vincent Boussard and Ondřej Havelka.

Since the 2022/23 season, Giulia Montanari has been a member of the ensemble at the Cologne Opera, where she has appeared in three season premieres. These include the roles of Ascagne/ Les Troyens (Berlioz), Clorinda/ La Cenerentola and Cleopatra/ Giulio Cesare. She also appeared as Blonde in the revival of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte.

Engagements at the Cologne Opera in previous seasons include the roles of Ein Hüter, der Schwelle des Tempels and Falke in the premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten. In addition, she appeared in a new stage production of J. Haydn's ‘The Creation’, followed by G. F. Handel's Angelica/Orlando and another new production with Zerlina/Don Giovanni.

This season, Giulia Montanari can be seen as Woglinde/Das Rheingold in the Ring premiere under the musical direction of Marc Albrecht and directed by Paul-Georg Dittrich, as Queen of the Night/Die Zauberflöte, as well as Susanna and Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro, Clorinda/La Cenerentola and, in a co-production with Glyndebourne, as Michal in Barry Kosky's production of Saul.
In the concert field, she will make her debut at the Beethovenhalle Bonn on Good Friday with the St Matthew Passion under the baton of Attilio Cremonesi. 

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