Julia Pevzner
Director
Young but internationally recognized director of opera and theater, Julia Pevzner's international operatic debut took place at the Dallas Opera with a production of The Queen of Spades in 2003.
She debuted in Europe at The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg with Der Rheingold and Die Walküre later in 2003, and at the Israeli Opera with Half a Moon Tale in 2004.
She takes a special interest in new opera and musical theater works, fringe theater, innovative productions, and teaching career. Pevzner has staged a number of Israeli new operas. Her recent work includes La Serva Padrona and Der Schauspieldirektor in Israel, Letters to Orpheus - a poetical musical theater - in Georgia, Boris Godunov at the Houston Grand Opera, Nabucco at the Greek National Opera, Eugene Onegin at the Virginia Opera and others.
Her future projects include The Nose at the Boston Lyric Opera, Boris Godunov at the San Francisco Opera, La Bohème at the Virginia Opera and The Seven Deadly Sins at the Helikon Opera, Moscow.
Born in Russia, Julia Pevzner immigrated to Israel in 1991 and speaks Hebrew, English, French, Italian and Russian. She is a graduate of the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music in St. Petersburg (Piano and Musicology departments) and holds a B.A. degree of the Tel Aviv University (Linguistics and French Literature Department). She began her career as a House Producer at the Israeli Opera, and then as Assistant Director to Francesca Zambello and revived Ms. Zambello's productions at the Opera Bastille, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the English National Opera, the Bolshoi Theater and other theaters.