JULIANA CURCIO

Juliana Curcio, whose voice has been called “rich and colorful” by Musik Magazine has been performing both internationally and in the U.S. for over a decade.  This fall she will be returning to St. Petersburg Opera singing Mrs. Nolan in The Medium and Maddalena in "Voices From The Other Side" scenes program written by Mark Sforzini.  In the fall of 2025 she work-shopped a new opera, The Wedding Banquet by composer  Huang Ruo at The Metropolitan Opera. She was the Mezzo Soloist for Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Garden State Opera.  The summer of 2025 she performed with The Clarence Symphony Orchestra in Buffalo NY. This past winter she made her debut with New Camerata Opera in the title role in La Tragédie de Carmen. She made her company debut with Lighthouse Opera in the title role of Carmen. In the fall of 2024 made her role and company debut as Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro with Buffalo Opera Unlimited where her and her fellow Bartolo were praised by Peter Hall in the Buffalo Rising to be “enjoyable as a couple, with stand out voices”  The spring of 2024 she was heard with Opera in Williamsburg in Les contes d’Hoffman as The Mother. She made her Germany debut in 2021, with Theater Aachen singing Dorotea in Verdi’s Stiffelio, Filosofia in Cesti’s L’Orontea and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Hippolyta in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and sang with Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg as Zita in Gianni Schicci. She finished out the season with the Eutinfestspiel as Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. She made her debut with the Pacific Choir and Symphony as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah in Vancouver, Canada. She returned back to Anchorage Opera in the fall of 2019 to reprise the role of Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and also made her St. Petersburg Opera Debut in the spring of 2019 as La Suora Zelatrice in Suor Angelica. In 2019, she made her Canada debut singing the 3rd Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Brott Opera.  She was the Mezzo- Soprano soloist for the inaugural concert of the Penn Square Music Festival. She then went on as a  finalist in the Edward Murray Competition with Opera Ithaca.  Juliana made her Anchorage Opera debut, performing the role of Maddalena in their production of Rigoletto.  She continued on as a Semi Finalist in the Francisco Ariaza International Vocal Competition in Hermosillo, Mexico. In 2015, Juliana was a Resident Artist with Pensacola Opera, performing the  role of Kate in The Pirates of Penzance as well as various concerts and outreach programs.  In 2014 she made her Chelsea Opera debut in New York City as Marla in Henry Mollicone’s Emperor Norton.  Juliana also performed extensively with the Central Florida Lyric Opera, under direction Bill Doherty and Italian tenor, Andrea Elena.  Her credits include, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.  Liesl, The Sound of Music, 2nd Lady Die Zauberflöte. In 2013 she sang with the Central Florida Lyric Opera’s Verdi Concert Tour in Milan, Italy where she performed with world-renowned tenor, Luigi Alva. Juliana was a Semi-Finalist in the Brava! Opera Theatre and James Collier Young Artist competition as well as the Mezzo-Soprano First Place Winner in the Riverside Opera Company of NYC vocal competition. In 2011, Juliana earned her M.M. in Vocal Performance at The Manhattan School of Music, studying with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell.  During her graduate studies, Juliana performed L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortileges. She obtained her B.M. and B.A. in Vocal Performance and Music Education from The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. After completing her Master’s Degree, Juliana continued to sing in and around New York City with New York Lyric Opera, Manhattan Opera Repertory Theatre, and New York Opera Forum.  Her credits include, Siebel, Faust, Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella, Cosi fan tutte and the title role in Carmen.  Juliana is also the Co-Founder of Manhattan Artists Crossing (MAX Studios), a recording studio in Upper Manhattan,  She resides in New York City with her husband, Baritone, Max van Wyck and her dog, Nadia Boulanger.  She has been studying with Matthew Anchel since 2015.