Biography

The Swedish mezzosoprano Julia Andersson was born in Landskrona in Skåne, Sweden. She just graduated from the Swiss Opera Studio, where she studied with Prof. Tanja Ariane Baumgartner. Julia is also a graduate from Academy of Music and Drama (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gothenburg) and Stockholm University of Arts (Magister of Singing, Opera). She found her love for music at 7 years old through the choir world in southern Sweden, and through studies in voice with performance focus at Härnösands Folkhögskola, she began her classical training.

The year 2022 she has been singing Glutz in Casanova in der Schweiz (P. Burkhard, Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn), Thibault in Don Carlos (G. Verdi, Bühnen Bern), Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte (W. A. Mozart, Skånska Operan) and Undulaten in Väntarna (L. J. Werle, Verkstan, Malmö Opera) as well as performing her own monodrama Quarantine Queen. She has previously been seen as Garcias (Don Quijote, Massenet) at Folkoperan in Stockholm, and Miss Julie (Fröken Julie, Hallin) at Höga Kusten Operafestival. Other performed roles include Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart), Carmen and Mercédès (Carmen, Bizet), Genevieve (The Long Christmas Dinner, Hindemith), Zweite and Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte, Mozart), Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Offenbach) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell).

Besides opera, Julia has a big interest in song cycles. Among others, she has performed cycles by Britten, Mahler, Barber, Nystroem och Schumann. Julia is also a stage poet, and makes concerts where she combines her own stage poetry with music – preferably song cycles.

Julia also has a wide experience in the concert repertoire, and has sung the alto soloist in oratoriums by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, Sandén and Pergolesi.