Online Programme Culture and the SDGs

Julia LAGAHUZÉRE

Named “Femme de Culture 2020”, Julia Lagahuzère is Co-founder and General Director of the non-profit organisation Opera for Peace – Leading Young Voices of the World. This project is the largest international organization serving as a reference for young opera professionals around the values of diversity, equity, social justice, artistic excellence, affordable education and sustainability. Working at the highest level, and jury member to the world’s most important singing competitions, she was recently Deputy Casting Director of Opéra National de Paris in the two theatres of Opéra de Bastille and Palais Garnier. She has previously worked at the San Francisco Opera, Scottish Opera and Opéra de Limoges. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Sussex University, a musicology scholarship recipient at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Masters degree in Opera and Visual Performing Arts from King’s College London, in collaboration with the BBC Proms. Julia is Founder of Circular Culture, an original and ambitious initiative linking Performing Arts with Circular Economy values which has lead her to be invited as guest speaker in leading academic institutions like ISPI, LUISS, La Sapienza and The Global Leaders Program. She has been awarded “Global Change Agent 2022 – Powerhouse Global Awards”, as well as honoured by Lead India USA for the "relentless pursuits in the field of promoting peace and harmony". She is currently Cultural Ambassador for Sustainability at the Osservatorio Nazionale Tutela del Mare in Italy.