Juliana Snapper is a contemporary opera singer, live performance artist, experimental theater director, voice scholar and musicologist. She received her B.M. in vocal performance from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied under Richard Miller, and her M.A. in critical musicology at University of California, San Diego.
Snapper creates performances and installations that push the physical and expressive capacities of the singing body. As the Huffington Post put it, among some of our favorite opera innovators... transforming the future of opera... Snapper is a contemporary soprano who combines radical vocal techniques, improvisation and collaboration to push the operatic medium to its extreme limits.[1]
She collaborated with performance artist Ron Athey on the piece The Judas Cradle[2] which toured throughout the U.K. and premiered in the U.S. at Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theatre (2005). Her Five Fathoms Opera Project premiered in 2008 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA NY.[3] In May 2009, she collaborated with composer Andrew Infanti and costume designer Susan Matheson on the premiere of the world's first underwater opera You Who Will Emerge From the Flood at the Victoria Baths in Manchester, England. It is part of a site-specific work that has been staged till 2017 in the U.S., Slovenia, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, and Australia.[4]
A long-standing associate of French composer Philippe Manoury and mathematician and sound designer Miller Puckette, she has collaborated with them on several original works and concert works: Illud Etiam,[5]En écho,[6]Double Voiced[7] ...
Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Metropolitan Opera Foundation, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts and The Durfee Foundation.
^Frank, Priscilla (26 August 2014). "14 Artists Who Are Transforming The Future Of Opera". huffpost.com. HuffPost. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^"The Judas Cradle". Juliana Snapper's website.
^"Five Fathoms Deep My Father Lies". Juliana Snapper's website.
^Shlomowitz, Matthew (22 May 2023). "Podcast Ep.105: Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti - You Who Will Emerge from the Flood". Soundmaking. Acast. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^"Illud etiam, Philippe Manoury". brahms.ircam.fr. IRCAM.
^"En écho, Philippe Manoury". Juliana Snapper's website.
^"Double Voiced, J. Snapper and M. Puckette". The BIFEM Archive. Bandcamp.
JulianaSnapper is a contemporary opera singer, live performance artist, experimental theater director, voice scholar and musicologist. She received her...
of the women who defined the artist's childhood. He and the artist JulianaSnapper developed Judas Cradle (2004-2005), an experimental opera. In 2010...
in May 2009. It was created by performance artist and opera singer JulianaSnapper and composer Andrew Infanti. It is part of a site-specific work that...
Los Angeles (Ph.D.). Snapper has three children: Pieter Snapper, a composer, tonmeister and professor in Istanbul, JulianaSnapper, a Los Angeles-based...
performance artists Ron Athey, JulianaSnapper and Nicole Blackman. She collaborated most recently with JulianaSnapper and composer Andrew Infanti in...
has also written for and collaborated with his sister, vocal artist JulianaSnapper, including sound design/live processing for the European premier of...
Chloe Little Hope) played bass; and Lala Hulse on banjo and lap steel. JulianaSnapper joined as vocalist on the song "Rock Opera". When Rusten left the band...
that documented the project. ARLA was formed by Mann, vocal artist JulianaSnapper, filmmaker Vera Brunner-Sung, and choreographer Kristen Smiarowski...
table cream, capers and avocado, mixed in just before eating Fried Red Snapper, fried plantain, rice and tomato rice atollao A caldo de costilla served...
Rock Hill, South Carolina $2,000 2 (48-51-43-42-53-47=284) Eric Marx / Snapper Pierson x 200 PDGA 1986 Jul 23 - 26 Charlotte, North Carolina Johnny Sias...
including prawns, shrimp, crab, spiny lobster, conch, mahi-mahi, red snapper, marlin, and grouper. Salt cod is a staple food eaten on its own and used...
Armed Forces?". Napoleonic Scholarship Journal. Retrieved 1 October 2017. Snapper, F. (1972). "De legervorming in Nederland tussen 1813 en 1940" (PDF). Militaire...
1994 Harold Duvall Nobuya Kobayashi Darrell Lynn Dan Mangone Doug Newland Snapper Pierson Lavone Wolfe 1995 Ken Climo John David David Greenwell Johnny Roberts...
The mangrove's root provides nursery grounds for young fish, such as snapper. A foundation species can occupy any trophic level in a food web but tend...
d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1912–2013), painter Saskia Weishut-Snapper (born 1938), fiber artist Maria Weenix (1697–1774), painter Clara Adriana...
weinig, drie is te veel" was performed in the Stadschouwburg with Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in the audience. He received the Cultural Youth Passport...
(37 km) off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Kenley. Juliana United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Hastings, Sussex. Lufra Norway...
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