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This March, Julia Bullock brought two of her deeply personal projects to Australia’s Adelaide Festival. First, she performed with husband Christian Reif a chamber arrangement that Reif made for AMOC* of John Adams’s Christmas oratorio, El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered. The work celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women, and in Bullock’s words “ruminates...
This December 4-7, Julia Bullock will give the premiere of Song of the Reappeared, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from former CSO Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice and 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin. Also a founding core member with Bullock of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), Aucoin wrote the cycle for her on texts...
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...
