Juliana Snapper is a contemporary opera singer, live performance artist, experimental theater director, voice researcher and musicologist. She received her B.M. in vocal performance from the

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory of Oberlin College, a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in ...

, and her M.A. in critical musicology at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

. 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. She collaborated with performance artist

Ron Athey Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). Athey's work explores challenging ...

on the piece ''The Judas Cradle'' which toured throughout the U.K. and premiered in the U.S. at

Walt Disney Concert Hall The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Av ...

REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts in downtown Los Angeles, California, located inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Named for ...

Theatre (2005). Her ''Five Fathoms Opera Project'' premiered in 2008 at

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

NY. In May 2009, she collaborated with pianist/compose
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 Victoria Baths is a Grade II* listed building, in the Chorlton-on-Medlock area of Manchester, England. The baths opened to the public in 1906 and cost £59,144 to build. Manchester City Council closed the baths in 1993 and the building was left e ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

, England, a site-specific work that has been staged till 2017 in the U.S., Slovenia, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, and Australia. A long-standing associate of French composer

Philippe Manoury Philippe Manoury (born 19 June 1952) is a French composer. Biography Manoury was born in Tulle and began composition studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1 ...

and mathematician and sound designer

Miller Puckette Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. Puckette is known for aut ...

, she has collaborated with them on several original works and concert works: ''Illud Etiam'', ''En écho'', ''Double Voiced'' ... Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center), Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Referred ...

Foundation,

Arts Council of Great Britain The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council (l ...

, The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts an
The Durfee Foundation

References

* * * * * Nigel Brookes. "Prison, Perception, and the Humanity of Art" Concrete Magazine, July 2005. *

Amelia Jones Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961), originally from Durham, North Carolina, is an American art historian, art theorist, art critic, author, professor and curator. Her research specialisms include feminist art, body art, performance art, video art, ...

(Spring 2006)
"Holy Bodies: Erotic Ethics in Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper's The Judas Cradle."
TDR:

The Drama Review ''TDR: The Drama Review'' is an academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts. The journal covers dance, theatre, music, performance art, visual art, popular entertainment, media, sports, r ...

, vol. 50 no. 1, 2006, p. 159-169. *

Faye Hirsch Faye Hirsch (born 1956) is an American writer, art critic, educator, and editor, specializing in contemporary art and contemporary printmaking. She is part of the faculty in the school of art and design at State University of New York at Purchase. ...

, Review of Performa05. Art in America, February 2006.
Cindy Center, "Podcast Interview 21: Juliana Snapper"
* Lisa Cazzato-Vieyra, "The Judas Cradle Documentary." (DVD) Native Voice Films, London, UK, 2006. *

Mojca Kumerdej Mojca Kumerdej (born 1964) is a Slovene writer, philosopher and critic. She works as the cultural chronicler for the daily newspaper ''Delo''. Biography Kumerdej graduated in philosophy and sociology of culture from the University of Ljublja ...

(June 28, 2008)
"Sirenine podvodne arije [Mermaid's Underwater Aria
">ermaid's Underwater Aria">"Sirenine podvodne arije [Mermaid's Underwater Aria
Delo (newspaper)">Delo ''Delo'' () is a business oriented online media in Ukraine, belonging to ekonomika+ media holding. ''Delo'' was the first daily in Ukraine, publishing its real print circulation (13.000 - 15.000) and trying to introduce Western editorial and b ...

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