Julia Novikova studied opera singing at the conservatory in her native city, St. Petersburg, and made her first stage experience during her study, singing Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Serpina in La Serva Padrona, and Marfa in The Tsar's Bride.

Julia Novikova made her professional stage debut with Mariinsky theatre, performing Flora in The Turn of the Screw (Valery Gergiev, conductor).

She has been in fixed engagement with Theater Dortmund for two seasons, where she sang Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Queen of  Shemakha in The Golden Cockerel, and Gilda in Rigoletto, among others.

Julia Novikova has appeared as Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Frankfurt and Bonn), Medoro in Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (all in Bonn), Gilda in Rigoletto (Lübeck), Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin).

More recently she has performed Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strasbourg), Rosina (Stuttgart), Opera High Lights Concert in Carnegie Hall, New York, and made her debut as Queen of Night at Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, and Hamburg State Opera.

She has just made her role debut as Adina in L'elisir d'amore (Bonn).

Upcoming operatic engagements include Gilda in Rigoletto (DVD Recording, cond. Zubin Mehta, Komische Oper Berlin and Bonn), Amina in La Sonnambula (Bonn), Gretel in Hänsel and Gretel (Lyon), Norina in Don Pasquale (Washington), Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Frankfurt and Komische Oper Berlin), and the roles of Zerbinetta, Susanna, Queen of Night, Sophie in Rosenkavalier, and Oscar in Un Ballo In Maschera (all at Vienna State Opera).

Julia Novikova gave a solo recital at the 'Muziekdriedaagse' Festival in The Hague, Netherland and has been a soloist giving concerts in Bordeaux, Paris, Champs-Elysées, Nancy, Grachten Festival Amsterdam, and with Duisburger Philharmonic Orchestra.

Upcoming concert engagements include Gala Concert in Budapest National Opera, Solo concert with The Bern Chamber Orchestra, and a Solo concert in Vienna State Opera.

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 (1^st Prize, January 2008).

She has won both the 1^st Prize and the Audience Prize at OPERALIA 2009 Plácido Domingo The World Opera Competition in Budapest.