Praised for her warm, rich tone and honest storytelling, Julia Rose Woodward brings a fresh and authentic voice to each project she takes on. For the 2024-25 season, she returns to the stage as Die Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Opera Carolina for their 75th season. She will also join the chorus of their productions of Carmen and La Boheme.
She is currently a Principal Young Artist of Opera Carolina.​

 

Previous credits include: Lola in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Doctor 2 inRedler's The Falling and the Rising, Musetta (cover) in Puccini’s La Boheme, Frasquita (cover) in Georges Bizet’s Carmen with Opera Carolina, Laetitia (cover) in Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief with Angels Vocal Art, Die Zweite Dame in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the Utah Vocal Arts Academy, Maguelonne in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, The Maid in Menotti’s Amelia al ballo, Street Singer in Leonard Bernstein’s MASS with Opera at USC; Zerlina in W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Franco-American Vocal Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

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Educational outreach credits include: Marla the Koala in Young's Abrazo de oso, and The Pig/Teen Duck in Duncan’s The Ugly Duckling with Opera Carolina's outreach program, Opera Xpress, Despina in Davie's The Three Little Pigs with FBN Productions. In addition she has performed alongside Kristin Chenoweth in her show, My Love Letter to Broadway in New York City.  

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Expanding into the concert and recital repertoire, she made her solo debut with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in 2022 on their Summer Pops in the Park concert. She joined the Western Piedmont Symphony as their soloist for A Down Home Christmas concert in 2021. Ms. Woodward was a soloist for Charlotte Master Choral in their 2019 presentation of Considering Matthew Shepard. Ms. Woodward was chosen to sing by esteemed vocal coach, Arlene Shrut, at the Honors Recital for University of South Carolina’s School of Music in 2018. She was chosen again in 2019 to represent the graduate level of the Vocal Department by Metropolitan Opera tenor John Fowler and Beverly Hay.  She presented a recital in Provo, Utah with the Utah Vocal Arts Academy and in Salzburg with the Franco-American Vocal Academy and was chosen to perform in the Piccolo Spoleto Rising Stars Concert in Charleston, SC. She has been a soloist with the Dutch Fork Choral Society and Furman University in their presentation of Handel’s Messiah.

 

Ms. Woodward attended the Charleston County School of the Arts and the Brevard Music Center in the High-School training division in her formative years. She holds her Master of Music from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and her Bachelor of Music degree from Furman University in Greenville, SC.

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She currently resides in Charlotte, NC and is a student of  Victoria Livengood.