Julia Pevzner was born in Russia and immigrated to Israel in 1991. She has directed many opera production in Israel and abroad including The Tsar’s Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov) at the Bolshoi in Moscow, Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) in Chicago, San Francisco and Houston, Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky) and La boheme (Puccini) in Virginia, Pique Dame at the Dallas Opera, as well as Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich) and others at the Israeli Opera. 

Her productions of Der Rheingold and Die Walküre were performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 2007, and her production of Shostakovich’s The Nose won the Best of Boston prize in 2009.

She has also directed several world premieres of operas by Israeli composers including The Happy Prince (Gil Shohat), The Inn of Spirits (Moshe Zorman), Golem 13 (Noam Sheriff) and The Wondrous Woman Within Us (Osnat Netzer). She was the Artistic Director of the Voice of Music at the Upper Galilee Children Festival, the Artistic Advisor of the Red Sea Classic Music Festival and a Music Consultant of the Tel Aviv Yaffo Municipality.  

At the Israeli Opera she directed:
Orfeo ed Euridice (2018) - Akko

Nabucco (2017) - Be’er-Sheva 

Rigoletto (2016) - Jerusalem, revival director
Rigoletto (2012) revival director

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2011) revival director
Tosca (2009) revival director
L'elisir d'amore (2006) - Tel Aviv Port, revival director
L'elisir d'amore (2005) revival director
L'elisir d'amore (2005) - community production
L'elisir d'amore (2004) - community production
Half a Moon Tale (2004)
The Little Magic Flute (2000) revival director
The Little Magic Flute (1999) revival director