Julie Silva sings with a unique viola-like mezzo-soprano timbre ideal for the operatic trouser repertoire as well as contemporary operatic works. Recent operatic stage credits for Julie include the title trouser roles in Hansel and Gretel (Shakespeare Opera Theater), Orfeo ed Euridice (Opera McGill), and The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Robot (One Ounce Opera). She has been seen as the Page in Rigoletto in different productions at both Austin Opera and Opera San Antonio and has covered Siébel (Faust) with the Natchez Festival of Music, where she also performed as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca. With an operatic tone well suited to Mozart and Handel, she has performed Annio (La clemenza di Tito) with LOLA, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (with LAHSOW), Sesto in Giulio Cesare (with BASOTI), and was featured as the Bridesmaid in Austin Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro. As a passionate proponent of new operatic works, Julie has covered the role of the Teacher in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Austin Opera) and has premiered new art song with the iSING! International Young Artists Program in Suzhou, China. With composer Graham Reynolds, Julie has performed excerpts from the cross-border opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance at the New England Foundations for the Arts conference. Julie has also premiered several roles with the grassroots company One Ounce Opera including Persis in Remembering Landscape and Mary in Door. With Portland, Oregon’s Imago Theatre, Julie premiered the role of the Mezzo Soloist in Satie’s Journey, an “adventurous music-theatre work.”