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2019 Julia Kleiter gives her debut performance in the part of Donna Anna in semi-staged performances by _Don Giovanni_ on tour with Basel Chamber Orchestra in Hamburg and Paris. She wants to return to Berlin State Opera as Eva in _The Meistersinger of Nuremberg_ and to Milan for Ilia in _Idomeneo_, she will give her debut at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in the Part of Contessa at _Le Nozze di Figaro_.

In Brussels, she will give her debut in the part of Marschallin at _Der Rosenkavalier_ in Zurich, in Zurich in scheduled debuts in the title role of _Arabella_ in 2020 and in the part of Countess in _Capriccio_ in 2021.

Among her concert plans are Dvorak's _Stabat Mater_ in Munich, Mozart's _Requiem_ under Christoph Prégardien in Duisburg or Rossini's _Petite Messe Solenelle_ at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg.

Highlights of recent seasons include Eva in _The Mastersingers of Nuremberg_ under Kiril Petrenko in Munich, Under Philippe Jordan in Paris and under Daniel Barenboim in Berlin, Agathe in _The Freeshooter_ in Dresden and at Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Lisa in Lehar's _The Land of Smiles_ in Zurich, Contessa at _Le Nozze di Figaro_ in Milan and Zurich, Fiordiligi at _Così fan tutte_ at Zurich Festival, Emma at Schubert's _Fierabras_ under Ingo Metzmacher at Salzburg Festival, Donna Elvira at _Don Giovanni_  under Fabio Luisi at Zurich, Ilia at _Iomeneo_ in Essen and under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Graz and Zurich, Zdenka in _Arabella_ in Zurich under Franz Welser-Möst, in Berlin under Ulf Schirmer and in Paris under Philippe Jordan, Almirena in Handel's _Rinaldo_ at Chicago Lyric Opera.

She performed Sophie in _Der Rosenkavalier_ in Berlin under Donald Runnicles and in Zurich under Welser-Möst, Ännchen in _Der Freischütz_ under Thomas Hengelbrock in Dortmund and Baden-Baden, Marzelline in _Fidelio_ in Ferrara, Baden-Baden and Madrid under Claudio Abbado as well as in Paris under Sylvain Cambreling. In Zurich she gave her debut as Serpetta in _La Finta Giardiniera_ under Nikolaus Harnoncourt and guested with Zurich Opera as Giunia in Johann Christian Bach's _Luio Silla_ under Theodor Guschlbauer in _Winterthur_. 

Julia Kleiter was Claudio Abbado's _Papagena_ in Ferrara, Baden-Baden and Modena, Susanna in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ in Verona, Reggio Emilia, Dresden and Paris, Celia in Mozart's _Lucio Silla_  under Tamas Netopil in Venice and at Salzburg Festival, Amor in _Orfeo ed Euridice_ under Ricardo Muti in Florence and Euridice under Thomas Hengelbrock in Paris as well as Galathea in concert performances of Handel's _Acis and Galathea_ in Göttingen.

Julia Kleiter gave her operatic debut 2004 at Paris Opéra-Bastille as Pamina in _The Magic Flute_ conducted by Jiri Kout. During the following ten years she performed in Madrid, Zurich, at the Edinburgh Festival, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Munich and at Salzburg Festival under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Claudio Abbado, Adam Fischer and 2014 again in Paris - this time under Philippe Jordan. 

Helmut Rilling, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Jeffrey Tate, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Ivor Bolten, René Jacobs, Christoph Poppen, Daniel Harding and many others or Marek Janowski. Lately she performed Dvorak's _Requiem_ under Philippe Herreweghe in Berlin, Schumann's _Paradise and Peri_ in Zurich and Brahms' _A German Requiem_ in London under Luisi, Haydn's _Creation_ in Milan and Berlin as well as Bruckner's _Te Deum_ in Munich under Mehta. 

Several DVDs and cd recordings are proving her artistic variety. 

Born in Limburg, Julia Kleiter studied with William Workmann in Hamburg and with Klesie Kelly-Moog in Cologne.