Juliet Schlefer is a Brooklyn-born, lyric soprano who recently received her 2024 Masters of Music degree from the University of Michigan along with the Earl V. Moore Award for Artistic Achievement. An accomplished performer, Juliet enjoys singing opera, oratorio, chamber music, and songs with repertoire ranging from the baroque to the avant-garde. Recent accolades include a vocal fellow with Toronto Summer Music Festival and the 2025 winner of the Musicians Club of Women competition. Last summer with TWC, Juliet performed in Buenos Aires’ CCK as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside acclaimed baritone, Will Liverman.  

Juliet’s recent collaborative performance highlights include “In Search of Her”, an exploration of womanhood combining Faure’s Chanson d’Eve and Heggie’s Eve Songs with dance and projection, created and produced by Muse Ye, “Hypothetical Love” featuring American women composers and Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel with Sarah Thune, and à la Dada, a revitalized version of the classic Dada cabaret. Larger works include Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915, Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasilieras, No. 5, Philip Glass’s Music in 12 Parts, and Steve Reich’s Tehillim. Opera experience includes Elizabeth Cree as Aveline Mortimer by Kevin Puts, directed by Gregory Keller and Kirk Severtson, the vixen Bystrouška, in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Tara Faircloth and Kirk Severtson, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Neo, and Alice Hobson in the workshop of Tom Cipullo’s Hobson’s Choice.