The soprano Julia Grüter, who hails from North Rhine-Westphalia, has been a permanent ensemble member at the Staatstheater Nürnberg since the 2018/19 season. Since then, she has appeared in numerous productions there, including Romilda ("Xerxes") and Gretel ("Hänsel und Gretel"), as well as Euridice ("L’Orfeo" by Monteverdi) and Fiordiligi ("Così fan tutte"). In "La Calisto", she sang the title role in 2020.
In the 2021/22 season, she made her debut in three major roles of her fach: Micaëla ("Carmen"), Mélisande ("Pelléas et Mélisande"), and Sophie ("Der Rosenkavalier"). She gave another role and house debut as Zdenka ("Arabella") at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen. In the 2022/23 Nuremberg season, she once again took on a title role in the Baroque opera "Talestri" and sang her first Susanna ("Le nozze di Figaro").
At the Bayreuther Festspiele, Julia Grüter made her debut in 2023 as a Flowermaiden ("Parsifal") and as the Young Shepherd ("Tannhäuser"). In 2023/24, she gave another critically and publicly acclaimed role debut in Nuremberg as Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni"). In summer 2024, she appeared as a guest at the Komische Oper Berlin in a staged production of Handel’s "Messiah" in the hangar of the former Tempelhof Airport.
In spring 2025, she made her debut in Nuremberg to very positive acclaim as Alcina and performed the role of the Countess ("Le nozze di Figaro") for the first time. At the end of the 2024/25 season, Julia Grüter sang the Forest Bird in a concert performance of Wagner’s "Siegfried" at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Numerous concerts have taken the soprano throughout Europe. Particularly noteworthy are her appearances as a soloist in Bach’s "Christmas Oratorio", Haydn’s "The Creation", Mendelssohn’s "Elijah", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, as well as the Requiems by Mozart and Brahms. In these and other works, she has collaborated with conductors such as Joana Mallwitz, Vladimir Jurowski, Markus Poschner, Oksana Lyniv, and Jac van Steen. In May 2025, she made her North American debut performing Beethoven’s "Missa solemnis" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nathalie Stutzmann.
Julia Grüter first studied school music with a major in voice under Sabine Toliver. She then completed classical vocal studies at the University of Music in Münster with Dr. Zelotes Edmund Toliver, graduating with top marks and an opera certificate. She continues to maintain a close artistic collaboration with both teachers. Her training was further enriched by masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender and Mireille Delunsch, among others. Before joining the Nuremberg ensemble, she was a member of the opera studio of the Landestheater Linz for two seasons.
Julia Grüter is a second prize winner of the International Lied Duo Competition Ratingen 2015 and, the following year, was awarded a scholarship by the Dortmund Richard Wagner Association. In 2017, she won both first prize and the audience prize at the Linz Operetta Competition. At one of the most important competitions of our time, the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD, she prevailed against several hundred competitors in 2021 and was awarded third prize.