Julia Johnson

Julia Maria Johnson is a soprano from Spokane, Washington. At the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, she was a Washington State District Winner and a Northwest Region Encouragement Winner, a semi-finalist in the Heartland Sings Vocal Competition, a top nine finalist in the Vienna Beethoven Competition in Austria, and was awarded 2nd Prize & the Vítězslava Kaprálová Award at The American International Czech & Slovak Competition 2024. In January 2024, Ms. Johnson was a Resident Artist at Opera Naples singing the roles of Phyllis in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe and Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. She was also selected for the Vocal Immersion Program Fellowship with The Castleton Festival. This season, Ms. Johnson is making a few role debuts, performing the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Genesis Opera, covering Musetta in La Bohème with Opera San Jose, and performing the role of Ernestina in Salieri’s La Scuola de’ Gelosi with Pacific Opera Project. She is so excited to be back singing with Pacific Opera Project after performing the role of Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance (2023), and singing in the chorus of Trial By Jury (2023). Previous and upcoming engagements include performances all over the West Coast with The Opera Buffs, New Opera West, Sky Opera, Lyric Opera of Orange County, and Modern Opera Company. Since earning her M.M. in Voice Performance from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in 2021, she has also gone on to join the Voice Faculty at California Lutheran University.