Julia Bullock stars as Destiny/Loneliness in the world premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the operatic adaptation of Charles Blow’s wrenching coming-of-age memoir, at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Running from June 15 to June 29, Fire Shut Up in My Bones features music by award-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and a...

For the final event of her Met residency, Julia Bullock forgoes taking center stage in favor of curating and directing the performance of Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón, the story of escaped Afro-Cuban slave Esteban Montejo. Praised as “vivid, seductive and otherworldly” (New York Times), this 75-minute recital for bass-baritone, flute, percussion, and guitar stars...

On April 5, Julia Bullock stars in the world premiere of Zauberland, a new musical work which juxtaposes Schumann’s Dichterliebe with original songs by composer Bernard Foccroulle and writer Martin Crimp. A “radical and timely new treatment of Schumann’s song-cycle,” Zauberland tells the story of one woman’s flight from the war-torn Middle East to seek...