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Collaborative Partnership with the San Francisco Symphony

Expanding her relationship with the San Francisco Symphony, Julia Bullock has been named a Collaborative Partner for the 2020-21 concert season. This role is a part of the symphony’s new leadership model, in which the artistic planning is shared between new artistic director Esa-Pekka Salonen and eight younger visionaries from music and related fields. Fellow collaborative...

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Indianapolis Symphony Debut

On February 7 and 8, Julia Bullock makes her debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marc Albrecht. Julia sings Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations: a 10-movement song cycle written for soprano and strings. Britten’s song cycle is based on the evocative poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. Les Illuminations is proceeded by the orchestra’s performance of Ravel’s Le Tombeau...

Julia Bullock lays on a bed on stage with a man behind her, his hand covering her ear.

Zauberland Named in Limelight Magazine’s “Top Shows of 2019: Opera”

Zauberland was recently named one of Limelight Magazine’s “Top Shows of 2019.” Limelight praised director Katie Mitchell and playwright Martin Crimp’s objective to “dive into what a 19th-century song cycle has to say to us in today’s world.” Describing the opera as, “unsettling, sometimes Kafkaesque, and frequently leaving you gasping for air,” the magazine noted that...

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Residency at 2020 Aldeburgh Festival 

Julia Bullock has been selected as one of the four Artists in Residence at the 73rd Aldeburgh Festival. This June, she will bring Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine—a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, poet Claudia Rankine, composer Tyshawn Sory, and choreographer Michael Schumacher—to the festival for its UK premiere, explore the music of Cage and...