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......

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...