Jolly Stewart
Opera Director, Teacher of Applied Music, Voice
jstewar@artsci.wustl.edu
314.935.7111

Jolly Stewart, a native of Kansas City, sang professionally as Julia Emoed-Wallace. After earning a bachelor's degree in music at Oberlin Conservatory. she received three Reifeprüfungen (master's degrees) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Ms. Stewart made her operatic debut in the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tuttewith the Salzburg Camarata. After two-year engagement at the Bonn Stadttheater, she returned to the United States where she engaged by the San Francisco Opera and by numerous regional companies. In addition to her operatic career, she concertized widely.

At Washington University, Ms. Stewart is instructor in voice and director of Washington University Opera for which she staged and directed many 20th-century operas over the last sixteen years. For the Opera's winter and spring presentations, she has produced operas and excerpts representative of all historical opera periods. Her production of Puccini's Suor Angelica took a first prize in a National Opera Association competition in 1994. She has directed productions for regional opera companies, other universities, and is on the staff of the Black Hills Arts Festival in South Dakota. Ms. Stewart has also conducted master classes for Miami University's vocal program in Salzburg. She is the coordinator for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' Spring Training Program. Ms. Stewart is the Prinicipal Director for the Union Avenue Opera, which brings St. Louis audiences many of the most famous operas ever written. In the summer of 2006, she directed Puccini's beloved opera La Boheme.