Julia Lezhneva’s international career began in 2010 at the Classical Brit Awards at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Rossini’s Fra il padre. Since then, she has been a regular guest on major stages and with leading orchestras worldwide.
In 2019, she made her debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic and at the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2020, she sang Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Mozartwoche under Sir András Schiff, followed in January 2023 by Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. In June 2023, she made her debut at La Scala Milan in Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo.
Her acclaimed debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra took place in December 2020 under Herbert Blomstedt. In the 2024/25 season, she made her debuts with the LA Philharmonic and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
She performs regularly with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Nacional de España, Seattle Symphony, Kaohsiung Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic. She has worked with conductors including Adam Fischer, Giovanni Antonini, Emmanuelle Haïm, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, and Andrea Marcon.
Further engagements have taken her to festivals in Salzburg, Schwetzingen, Schleswig-Holstein, Lucerne, Vézère, Sion, and Dubrovnik, the Nordland Musikkfestuke, Bayreuth Baroque, and to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In 2024, she appeared for the first time with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir in Handel’s Esther.
Julia Lezhneva records exclusively for DECCA. Her award-winning discography includes arias by Graun (OPUS Klassik 2018), Hasse’s Serpentes Ignei in Deserto (2024), Porpora’s Polifemo and Carlo il Calvo (2023), Vivaldi’s Gloria with Franco Fagioli, Handel arias (Alleluia, 2014) with Il Giardino Armonico, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Philippe Jaroussky.
