Julie Fuchs

As soon as she finished her studies, she made her professional career performing Galatea at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

The same year, she was also the center of a media firestorm regarding her firing from the Hamburg Staatsoper where she was scheduled to sing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, due to her pregnancy. The coverage surrounding her brought to light the progress that still needs to be made regarding women’s right in the opera world.

In 2019, she released her latest recording for Deutsche Grammophon, Mademoiselle, a collection of Bel Canto arias, some of which were recorded for the first time.

She was a “marraine” of Tous à l’Opéra alongside Ruggero Raimondi in 2012. At the end of 2017, she sang Ave Maria by Franz Schubert at the televised funeral of Johnny Hallyday at the Madeleine Church in Paris.

2018 began with the role of Comtesse Adèle in Le Comte Ory, a new production at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Her season ended at the Zurich Opera in a new production of Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea, appearing in the title role.

In 2017, she returned to the Opéra national de Paris, creating the role of Esther for the premiere of the opera Trompe-la-mort de Lucas Francesconi, and to sing the role of Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff. Other highlights included Leïla in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles at the Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle in Lille and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. She also returned to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She also made her debut at the Teatro Real de Madrid as Giunia in Lucio Silla.

2016 marked her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Musetta in La Bohème. she sang with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and she made her debut at the Chorégies d’Orange, the celebrated festival in the South of France. Her year of debuts continued in Vienna, where she was praised by the press for her debut as Marie in Donizetti's La Fille du régiment.

Also in 2015, Fuchs made her debut at the Opéra national de Paris in the role of la Folie in Platée by Rameau. She also made her debut in the Rossini repertoire as the Comtesse Folleville at the Zurich Opera, and sang in the televised concert in celebration of Bastille Day in Paris, under the Eiffel Tower. At the Salzburg Festival that same year, she made her festival debut singing the soprano part in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.

In 2014, Fuchs signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon; she released her first album Yes! the following year, which paid homage to French repertoire in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 2013, she joined the opera ensemble at the Zurich Opera where she debuted several roles, including Marzelline in Fidelio, Morgana in Alcina, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and Angelica in Orlando.

In 2006, she entered the CNSM in Paris, considered the top conservatory in France. There, she made her first operatic role debuts as Elle in l’Amour Masqué by Messager and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart. During her time at the conservatory, she met and developed relationship with artists that she is still working with today, such as the founder of the French contemporary classical music group, Le Balcon, and the pianist Alphonse Cemin. In 2010, she graduated with honors.