Julia Lezhneva

Julia Lezhneva’s international career took off spectacularly when she caused a sensation at the 2010 Classical Brit Awards at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Rossini’s »Fra il padre«. In 2011, Opernwelt magazine named her Young Singer of the Year. Before that, she had already won first prize at the Paris Opera Competition, making her the youngest winner in its history. Julia Lezhneva now performs both as an opera singer and a lieder interpreter, featuring at venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Hamburg State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mozart Week in Salzburg. She has collaborated with the LA Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others, and has worked with renowned conductors such as Adam Fischer, Giovanni Antonini, Herbert Blomstedt and Paavo Järvi.