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Perle Noire in Paris and London

Julia Bullock gives the highly anticipated French premiere of her acclaimed project Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine this fall in eight performances at the Opéra national de Paris, opening the venue’s season and honoring Baker in the country that made her famous on the 120th anniversary of her birth. Inspired by the life and art of Joséphine Baker, Bullock developed the project in collaboration with storied opera director Peter Sellars and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, with spoken interludes by poet Claudia Rankine. Sorey joins Bullock for the performance, conducting the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (Sep 9-19). The following......

Support Lakes Area Music Festival

♥️ My reasons for loving and supporting the Lakes Area Music Festival in Minnesota go back 17 years… or is it 18!? ♥️ The full letter gives an overview of their extended contributions to the community. Check out the LakesAreaMusic.org website, because they offer SO MUCH! ♥️ If you feel that it’s an arts organization’s role to provide services to people, then it’s our civic responsibly to support those that do that work! And I urge you to donate to lakesareamusic.org/support — just like I do! ♥️ And yes, I’ll be singing Carmen at LAMF for the first time this......

Summer Festivals: Cincinnati and Minnesota

After a winter and spring of notable successes – including widely lauded performances of Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine at Australia’s Adelaide Festival – Grammy-winning American classical singer Julia Bullock looks forward to launching her summer season with a curatorial role as the Festival Director of Cincinnati’s May Festival, where she is also a featured soloist in the opening and closing programs (May 15–23). During the festival, Bullock will also give a performance of her recital titled “A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song” (May 17). Later in the summer, Bullock makes her role debut as the title character in......

Adelaide & Auckland Festivals

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...

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