Juliet Schlefer is a Brooklyn-born, lyric soprano who recently received her 2024 Masters of Music degree from the University of Michigan along with the Earl V. Moore Award for Artistic Achievement. An accomplished performer, Juliet enjoys singing opera, oratorio, chamber music, and song with repertoire ranging from the baroque to the avant-garde. This year she is a vocal fellow with Toronto Summer Music Festival, New Music on the Point, and the 2025 winner of the Musicians Club of Women competition. In the fall, she returns to solo with The Washington Chorus with Bach’s Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us. Last summer with TWC, Juliet performed in Buenos Aires’ CCK as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside acclaimed baritone, Will Liverman. She is currently creating and performing multi-dimensional recitals with her collaborators to take on tour.

Opera experience at UMich included the March 2024 production of Elizabeth Cree as Aveline Mortimer by Kevin Puts, directed by Gregory Keller and Kirk Severtson, and her Power Center debut in November 2022 as the vixen Bystrouška, in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Tara Faircloth and Kirk Severtson. Juliet also had a leading role in the workshop premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Hobson’s Choice, in spring of 2023, and was cast as Adele in the University of Michigan’s, 2020 production of Die Fledermaus, directed by Grant Preisser. Read more