Juliana Snapper is a contemporary opera singer, live performance artist, experimental theater director, voice researcher and musicologist.
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).
[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, a site-specific work that has been staged till 2017 in the U.S., Slovenia, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, and Australia.