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The Cincinnati May Festival has announced Julia Bullock as it’s 2026 May Festival Director. Official programming will be announced in the fall. “The development of the rich cultural scene in Cincinnati is documented well and is simply inspiring. And after some research, I was astounded by how that has become reflected in the May Festival...
John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra will debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in May with Julia Bullock in the title role. Pulitzer Prize winner John Adams is one of Bullock’s frequent collaborators: she created the role of Dame Shirley in his Girls of the Golden West and sang the role of Kitty Oppenheimer...
Bullock continues her spring season with two performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Thomas Søndergård of Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations, based on texts by Rimbaud (March 7 & 8). When the soprano sang the same piece with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2020, The Arts Desk found that she “played...
Julia Bullock will present her thoughtfully curated “History’s Persistent Voice” program at Yale University’s Schwarzman Center (Feb 7 & 8) before performing it at New York’s Lincoln Center (Feb 11) to kick off their American Songbook series. Comprising songs developed by people who were enslaved, alongside new works, and words by Black visual artists and...
