Gregory Sheppard Artists

Julia’s Bio

Soprano, Julia Ebner’s 2018-2019 season includes her return to Syracuse Opera, as Lucy in The Threepenny Opera. Ms. Ebner will be revisiting the beloved role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Oswego Opera for which her Tri-Cities Opera debut of the role was lauded as “vocally and dramatically suberb.” She will also reprise the role of Maud Gage in The Society for New Music’s production of Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage, a role which she originated in 2017. She will also be making her third appearance with Symphoria of Syracuse, New York, as the soprano soloist in Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Dona Nobis Pacem.

Ms. Ebner’s additional operatic credits include the title roles in Romeo et Juliette, L’incoronazione di Poppea, The Merry Widow, Hansel and Gretel and Princess Ida. She has also appeared as Marguerite in Faust, Violetta in La Traviata, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Mrs. Hayes in Susannah, Olga in La Grand-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Giulietta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi Musetta in La Boheme, Atalanta in Serse Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Gianetta in The Gondoliers, Madeline/Isabelle in The Face on the Barroom Floor, Micaela and Frasquita in Carmen and The First Lady and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Amitta in Der Geduldige Socrate, Mozart and Donna Anna in The Classical Style, First Wood Sprite in Rusalka, Monica in The Medium, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

She has taken the stage for companies including The Santa Fe Opera, The Florida Grand Opera, Opera North, Virginia Opera, Winter Opera St. Louis, Opera San Antonio, Ash Lawn Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Bel Cantanti Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival, Virginia Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Syracuse Opera, Opera in the Heights, The Tri-Cities Opera, Amherst Early Music Festival, Oswego Opera, and The Charleston Chamber Opera. Ms. Ebner has also had the honor of singing in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera for productions of Fidelio, Otello, and Turandot.

A versatile concert performer as well, Ms. Ebner’s credits include Mahler’s Rückert Lieder and Bach’s Magnificat with Symphoria, Haydn's Last Seven Words of Christ in DeWitt, New York, Mozart’s Requiem in Binghamton, New York, Handel’s Messiah in Amsterdam, New York and Haydn's Missa Brevis in F at Syracuse University. She has also sung the soprano solos in Mozart's Missa Brevis in F and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with the Syracuse Masterworks Chorale. Recognized for her talent for early music, she has frequently performed as the soprano soloist for the Binghamton Baroque Ensemble. She received her Masters in Music from Binghamton University in where she was the soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana, and Bach's Magnificat.

Ms. Ebner received her Bachelors in Music from Syracuse University where she was also the recipient of the Moore Opera Award, the Jessie Gaul Vocal Music Scholarship and the Ernst Bacon Vocalist Award. Other honors have included the Stuart & Jeanne Wilson Scholarship from Tri-Cities Opera and a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation. Ms. Ebner was the 2007 winner of the Helen Boatwright Award, and was a 2017 finalist for Opera Ithaca’s Edward M. Murray Voice Competition, a 2008 finalist for the Franco-American Vocal Awards and a 2006 and 2009 finalist for the Sara Tucker awards. She also received the Female Young Artist Award in 2009, from Opera North as well as a 2011 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the 2011 Campbell Wachter Memorial Award from the Santa Fe Opera.

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