Julia Novikova was born in Leningrad, started her music lessons in the age of 4. She was an artist and soloist of the Children’s Choir of TV and Radio of St.Petersurg leaded by S.Gribkov.

In 2006 graduated from St.Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Olga Kondina).

According to Julia, her passion for the vocal art started in her childhood, when she performed with the Children’s Choir of TV and Radio of St.Petersurg and attended the Mariinsky Theatre frequently.

In 2006, while she was a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov State St.Petersburg Conservatoire, Julia got her first permanent contracts in the German leading opera houses of Dortmund, Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin (Die Komische Oper Berlin). Then followed engagements in Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg State Operas, opera houses of Washington, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Toulouse and Paris, opera festivals in Salzburg, Quebec etc.

In 2010, Julia Novikova celebrated a great success as Gilda in the unique television production of Rigoletto from Mantova (directed by Marco Bellocchio), which was filmed in the original locations and transmitted live to 138 countries. The opera was conducted by Zubin Mehta and the cast also included Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Sébastien Guèze and Vittorio Grigolo.

Julia was among of the participants of the traditional Christmas concert in Vienna (2012) and also of the New-Year Eve concert in Budapest (2014). She collaborates with prominent singers such as Placido Domingo, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, Rolando Villazón, Ramon Vargas, Aleksei Kudrya, Erwin Schrott, Juan Diego Flórez etc.

Julia performed under the baton of great conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Franz Welser-Most, Maurizio Benini, Bertrand de Billy and others.

Julia Novikova is a Prize Winner of Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition in Sweden (3rd Prize, 2006), Concours de Geneve (Audience Prize, 2007), Neue Stimmen, Germany (Audience Prize, 2007), and Musik Debüt, Germany (1st Prize, January 2008). She has won both the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at OPERALIA 2009 Plácido Domingo The World Opera Competition in Budapest.