Praised for her “lovely medium-deep tone”, Julie Silva is a mezzo-soprano whose warm, viola-like timbre is well suited to both contemporary and traditional repertoire. Her comedic work has been noted for performances that “steal every scene she is in” (Opera Today), and she has appeared frequently in trouser roles including Hansel (Hansel and Gretel, Shakespeare Opera Theater), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice, Opera McGill), the title role in The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Robot (One Ounce Opera), as well as Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette, Shakespeare Opera Theater), Annio (La clemenza di Tito, LOLA Austin), Siébel (cover, Faust, Natchez Festival of Music), and Il Paggio (Rigoletto, Austin Opera; Opera San Antonio).

A trusted interpreter of new and genre-bending works, Ms. Silva has covered the role of Teacher in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Austin Opera, and has premiered new works with companies including the iSING! International Young Artists Program in Suzhou, China, Ballet Austin, Imago Theatre (Portland, OR), and One Ounce Opera (Austin). Her performance in the opera short Remembering Landscape (One Ounce Opera) was described by the Austin Chronicle as a “welcome breaking-and-entering into the house of what a person might call their soul.”

Ms. Silva received her Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance from McGill University and is currently based in New York City.