“Schlefer has a lyric voice of considerable beauty… she was equally sensitive when interpreting with the rest of the poem. ”
- Sequenza21
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“…Juliet Schlefer gave a poignant, vocally assured interpretation of Emily’s Aria from Ned Rorem’s 2005 Our Town.”
- San Diego Story
Tanglewood Music Center
The Crucifixion from Hermit Songs
The full cycle was performed this spring by Julian Grabarek and Juliet Schlefer
The Cunning Little Vixen
This past November, Juliet performed the role of Bystrouška in the University of Michigan’s production of “The Cunning Little Vixen” directed by Tara Faircloth and Kirk Severtson.
Juliet Schlefer is a Brooklyn-born, lyric soprano who recently received her 2024 Masters of Music degree from the School of Music, Theater and Dance along with the Earl V. Moore Award for Artistic Achievement. An accomplished performer, Juliet is equally comfortable singing opera, oratorio, chamber music, and recitals with repertoire ranging from the baroque to the avant-garde. In June 2024, during the University Chamber Choir’s combined tour with the Washington National Chorus to Washington DC and Buenos Aires, Juliet performed in Buenos Aires’ CCK as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside acclaimed baritone, Will Liverman. Her May 2024, MM recital featured work by Messiaen, Kate Soper, Sheila Silver, Korngold, Mahler and Golijov.
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