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...

Julia Bullock dedicated her fourth performance during her season-long Met residency to Joséphine Baker, the celebrated black artist who left America at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance to ascend to global superstardom in Paris. In her moving Notes on the Residency, Bullock describes Baker as “not merely an icon for women…not just an icon...