Julia Mintzer recently won rave reviews in the title role of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin at Theater an der Wien. She made her UK debut in spring of 2020 in the title role of Carmen at Welsh National Opera. Hailed by Montreal’s La Presse as “a true Carmen: extremely sensual, with the grace of a serpent, the violence of a tiger, and a mezzo of penetrating depth,” Julia has performed principal roles at Washington National Opera, Die Semperoper Dresden, and The Glimmerglass Festival. She has recently moved into soprano repertoire, and sang the title role in Salome at Tulsa Opera, in a new production by Thaddeus Strassburger. She has also performed the final scene from Salome at Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Odyssey Festival Orchestra and debuted as Tosca at Theater Sankt Gallen, reprising Santuzza at Dorset Opera Festival immediately after.

She was a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden from 2013-15 and a young artist at the Washington National Opera from 2012-13. In 2015-16 she returned to Washington National Opera as Hansel and to the Dresden Semperoper as Mercédès. She returned to Dresden again for the world premiere of Chasing Waterfalls, a co-production of the Semperoper Dresden and phase7 performing arts Berlin with the Hongkong New Vision Arts Festival and made her role debut as the Foreign Princess Rusalka at Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Her previous roles for the Dresden Semperoper include the leading role in Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren, Zweite Dame, Flora, The Page Salome, Dryade, and Emma May in the world premiere of Tsangaris's Karl May: Raum der Wahrheit. At the Washington National Opera, her roles were Hansel, Clotilde Norma and Giovanna Seymour Anna Bolena (WNO Opera Insight, Kennedy Center).

She sang the first staged performance of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2013. Recently, Julia has been seen as Elisabetta Maria Stuarda and Preziosilla La forza del Destino at Theater Aachen. She joined the Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein to sing the title role in Carmen and Elisabetta Maria Stuarda, returning for Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana and Giulietta Les Contes d’Hoffman before reprising the title role in Carmen at the Theater Lüneburg.

Julia graduated from The Juilliard School and the Boston University Opera Institute. Her concert engagements include Handel's Messiah with Boston Baroque, Washington National Cathedral, and the Toledo Symphony and Mozart's Requiem at Washington National Cathedral.

Julia holds a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa in the United Kingdom, where she is now a resident.