Julia Grüter

Biography

The soprano Julia Grüter, who comes from North Rhine-Westphalia, has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Nuremberg State Theater since the 2018/19 season . Since then she has been involved in numerous productions there, such as Romilda ( Xerxes ) and Gretel ( Hansel and Gretel ), as well as Euridice ( L'Orfeo by Monteverdi ) and Fiordiligi ( Cosí fan tutte ). In 2020 she sang the title role in La Calisto . In 2021/22 she made her debut with three major specialist roles: Micaëla ( Carmen ), Mélisande ( Pelléas et Mélisande ) and Sophie ( Der Rosenkavalier ). She made another role and house debut as Zdenka ( Arabella ) at the Aaltotheater Essen.
 

In the Nuremberg season 22/23 she again took on the title role of the baroque opera Talestri , and she also gave her first Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ). At  this year's Bayreuth Festival,  Julia Grüter appeared  for the first time  as a flower girl (Parsifal) and a young shepherd (Tannhäuser). 

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The soprano has performed numerous concerts throughout Europe, including appearances with the WDR Funkhausorchester, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Lugano and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Particularly noteworthy are her appearances as a soloist in works such as Haydn's Creation, Mendelssohn's Elias, Mahler's 4th Symphony and the Requiems by Mozart and Brahms, in collaboration with conductors  such as Joana Mallwitz, Markus Poschner and Jac van Steen. She is also very fond of art song, her focus is on French and German repertoire. In May 2023 she gave a song recital with Hugo Wolf's Italian songbook at the Nuremberg State Theater.

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Julia Grüter initially studied school music with a major in singing with Sabine Toliver. She then completed classical singing studies at the Münster University of Music with Dr. Zelotes Edmund Toliver with top marks and opera certificate. She still has an intensive collaboration with both teachers to this day. In addition, master classes with KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Mireille Delunsch, among others, complemented her training. Before Julia Grüter moved to the Nuremberg Ensemble, she was a member of the Upper Austrian Opera Studio of the Landestheater Linz for two seasons.


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Julia Grüter is the second prize winner of the International Song Duo Competition Ratingen 2015 and was a scholarship holder of the Dortmund Richard Wagner Association the following year. In 2017 she impressed at the Linz Operetta Competition and was awarded both first prize and the audience prize. At one of the most important competitions of our time, the ARD international singing competition, in 2021 she prevailed against several hundred competitors and won third prize.


Photo Credit: Sabine Kneidinger