Julia Aubrey

Julia Aubrey, associate professor of music, serves as director of opera theatre and head of the vocal area. She earned a bachelor of music in vocal performance, a master of music in vocal performance, and a master of arts in theatre from the University of Missouri at Columbia. In 2008 Julia was elected vice president of regions for the National Opera Association and served as Governor for the NOA Southeast Region from 2001 to 2007. In 1999, her opera ensemble won first place in an opera production competition with two one-act operas, Amelia Goes to the Ball and Gianni Schicchi. Her research in Creative Exercises for the Stage has been featured on tours, festivals, and was selected for presentation at the NOA national conventions in Philadelphia in 2001. The Opera Theatre Ensemble was selected to perform at the NOA national convention in Kansas City in 2004 and was one of three programs invited to perform at the Mid-West Opera Festival in 2003.

As director of opera theatre at the University of Mississippi, her productions include Orpheus in the Underworld, The Crucible, Cosi fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, Street Scene, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Magic Flute, Tartuffe, The Ballad of Baby Doe and The Marriage of Figaro Ms. Aubrey has served as musical director for the department of theatre, assisting in productions of West Side Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, How to Succeed in Business, The Man of LaMancha, Cabaret, Chicago, Anything Goes, The Rocky Horror Show, Footloose (as conductor/musical director) and Company. Before her tenure at Ole Miss, Julia staged operas for the Quad City Mozart Festival and productions at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Professor Aubrey served as the opera stage director for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Alaska from 2003 to 2005 summer.

Julia and her husband, Robert H. Aubrey, offer a Youth Music Theatre Workshop each summer designed for students age 10 to 17 to encourage skill development in singing, acting, and movement for music theatre.