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Julia Migenes was born on the lower east side of New York City into a family made up of a passionate mixture of Greek and Irish-Puerto Rican bloodlines. Despite a difficult and violent childhood, she discovered her calling upon engagement of the child role in "Madame Butterfly" where she first experienced the power and the emotion of music linked to a stage setting.

A few years later, she was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to be a soloist in his "Young People's Concerts." Julia then began her Broadway career: she was part of the original casting of "Fiddler on the Roof " with Zero Mostel and she interpreted Maria in "West Side Story."

Julia Migenes wrote "Diva on the Verge," a one-woman-show mingling monologue and opera often mocking its rigid world. Punctuated with some of the greatest arias in the soprano repertoire, she sketches out the life of an opera singer, with audacious anecdotes from behind the scenes. Aimed at "those who would not go and those who would not go back," Migenes' iconoclastic and earthy humor throws open the gates to the world of opera in all its splendor and preposterousness.

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