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Praised for her stage presence, “the charismatic French mezzo-soprano” (Première Loge) Julia Deit-Ferrand enjoys an eclectic and wide-ranging career.
Highlights of her 2025/2026 season include the title role in Julie by Philippe Boesmans at the prestigious Culturgest Theatre in Lisbon(Operafest), her debut at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in La Piccola cubana by Henze, the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka at Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, the Triceratops in Les Dinos et l’Arche(world premiere) at La Cité Bleue in Geneva under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, and La Muse in Carrousel, a young audience production inspired by Les Contes d’Hoffmann, at the Opéra National de Nancy-Lorraine. At La Plage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she co-creates a new recital-workshop entitled Mezzo vs Soprano alongside soprano Lysa Menu.
She has also been granted carte blanche by the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn (TOBS!) to create the opera Laissez durer la nuit, a project combining baroque music, electronics and traditional Mediterranean music.
In recent seasons, Julia has appeared at the Opéra de Lausanne as Brigitte de San Lucar (Le Domino noir, Auber), Dorothée (Cendrillon, Massenet) and the Notary (Don Pasquale ). Her repertoire further includes Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro ) at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, Mercédès (Carmen ) at Theater Magdeburg, Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Papagena (French version of The Magic Flute) at the Opéra d’Avignon, and Lotario (Lotario) in Payerne. For La Plage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she sang Angelina in a French adaptation of La Cenerentola and Bianca in the young audience opera Rosa et Bianca, set to music by Donizetti.
Highlights of her 2025/2026 season include the title role in Julie by Philippe Boesmans at the prestigious Culturgest Theatre in Lisbon(Operafest), her debut at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in La Piccola cubana by Henze, the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka at Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, the Triceratops in Les Dinos et l’Arche(world premiere) at La Cité Bleue in Geneva under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, and La Muse in Carrousel, a young audience production inspired by Les Contes d’Hoffmann, at the Opéra National de Nancy-Lorraine. At La Plage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she co-creates a new recital-workshop entitled Mezzo vs Soprano alongside soprano Lysa Menu.
She has also been granted carte blanche by the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn (TOBS!) to create the opera Laissez durer la nuit, a project combining baroque music, electronics and traditional Mediterranean music.
In recent seasons, Julia has appeared at the Opéra de Lausanne as Brigitte de San Lucar (Le Domino noir, Auber), Dorothée (Cendrillon, Massenet) and the Notary (Don Pasquale ). Her repertoire further includes Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro ) at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, Mercédès (Carmen ) at Theater Magdeburg, Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Papagena (French version of The Magic Flute) at the Opéra d’Avignon, and Lotario (Lotario) in Payerne. For La Plage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she sang Angelina in a French adaptation of La Cenerentola and Bianca in the young audience opera Rosa et Bianca, set to music by Donizetti.
Particularly drawn to contemporary repertoire, she has already distinguished herself in several major creations. At the Opéra du Rhin, she portrayed multiple roles in the world premiere of Don Giovanni’s Inferno by Simon Steen-Andersen. She sang the demanding role of the Mezzo in Der goldene Drache by Péter Eötvös at La Plage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, and performed the title role (Thérèse) in the world premiere of Derborence by Daniel Andres at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn. Her contemporary credits also include a Dwarf and an Animal in Blanche Neige by Marius Felix Lange, as well as Chérubin in the chamber opera Sholololo! at the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival and the Tête à Tête Festival in London.
In musical theatre, she has appeared as Sally Bowles (Cabaret), Fantine (Les Misérables) and Hattie (Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter). She also performed the leading role in Des Fables de la Fontaine with the Orchestre Pau Pays de Béarn, to music by Hervé Suhubiette.
She is the recipient of the Young Audience Prize and the Best Contemporary Interpretation Prize at the Kattenburg Competition (Lausanne), under the direction of John Fiore, and a laureate of the Fritz Bach Foundation. She also received Third Prize at the Léopold Bellan International Competition in Paris and was a Swiss finalist in the Voix Nouvelles Competition in 2018.
Julia holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), as well as a Soloist Master’s degree and a Concert Master’s degree from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where she studied with Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet and Hiroko Kawamichi.
In musical theatre, she has appeared as Sally Bowles (Cabaret), Fantine (Les Misérables) and Hattie (Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter). She also performed the leading role in Des Fables de la Fontaine with the Orchestre Pau Pays de Béarn, to music by Hervé Suhubiette.
She is the recipient of the Young Audience Prize and the Best Contemporary Interpretation Prize at the Kattenburg Competition (Lausanne), under the direction of John Fiore, and a laureate of the Fritz Bach Foundation. She also received Third Prize at the Léopold Bellan International Competition in Paris and was a Swiss finalist in the Voix Nouvelles Competition in 2018.
Julia holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), as well as a Soloist Master’s degree and a Concert Master’s degree from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where she studied with Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet and Hiroko Kawamichi.