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...

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...

On November 9, Julia Bullock performed at The Basilica of Saint Josaphat alongside Maestro Lee Mills and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Julia sang Benjamin Britten’s 10-movement song cycle Les Illuminations for soprano and strings. Elaine Schmidt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described Bullock’s performance, “a warm ringing sound and communicative delivery [that] reached the audience with...

On October 29 and 30, Julia Bullock made her debut at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival in Zauberland. Critics called her performance “extraordinary” (New York Times), “steely and affecting” (Vulture), and “dramatically compelling” (Financial Times). The work showcased Julia’s “rich-hued voice and expressive intelligence.” The one-act musical drama ​featuring Julia’s “masterly rendition of Schumann’s Dichterliebe“​ (The New Yorker) will...