Julia Grüter

Soprano Julia Grüter, who was born in North Rhine-Westphalia, has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Nürnberg 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). She sang the title role in La Calisto in 2020. In 2021/22, she made her debut with three major specialist roles: Micaëla (Carmen), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier). She made a further role and house debut as Zdenka (Arabella) at the Aaltotheater Essen. In the Nuremberg season 22/23, she again took on a title role in the baroque opera Talestri, and also gave her first Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro). Julia Grüter first appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 2023 as the Flower Maiden (Parsifal) and the Young Shepherd (Tannhäuser). In 2023/24, she made another role debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in Nuremberg, which was acclaimed by the press and audience. In summer 2024, she will make a guest appearance at the Komische Oper Berlin in a staged production of Handel’s Messiah in the Tempelhof Hangar.

Numerous concerts have taken the soprano throughout Europe, including performances with the WDR Funkhausorchester, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, the Linz Brucknerorchester, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Lugano and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Her performances as a soloist in works such as Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, 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, are particularly noteworthy. She is also very fond of art song, focussing on French and German repertoire. In May 2023, she gave a recital of Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch at the Staatstheater Nürnberg.

Julia Grüter initially studied school music with Sabine Toliver, majoring in singing. She then went on to study classical singing at the Münster University of Music with Dr Zelotes Edmund Toliver, gaining top marks and an opera certificate. She continues to work closely with both teachers to this day. Her training was complemented by masterclasses with KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Mireille Delunsch, among others. Before joining the Nuremberg ensemble, Julia Grüter was a member of the Upper Austrian Opera Studio at the Landestheater Linz for two seasons.

Julia Grüter won second prize at the International Lied Duo Competition in Ratingen in 2015 and was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association in Dortmund the following year. In 2017, she impressed at the Linz Operetta Competition and was awarded both 1st prize and the Audience Award. At one of the most important competitions of our time, the ARD International Singing Competition, she beat several hundred competitors to win third prize in 2021.