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...

WQXR kicked off the New Year by announcing a list of 19 artists who they believe their audience will love, including Julia Bullock! Bullock is in good company amongst pianist Inon Barnatan, Louisville Orchestra Director Teddy Abrams, and many other notable musicians. Praising Bullock’s “unforgettable stage presence and [her] voice from heaven,” WQXR lauded the...

The third performance of Julia Bullock’s season-long Met residency, titled Nativity Reconsidered, is an imaginative celebration of the Christmas spirit. Bullock oversaw the adaptation of John Adams’s Christmas oratorio, El Niño, for a chamber setting: rewritten for the American Modern Opera Company—of which Bullock is a founding core member—and four soloists, El Niño shines as a...

For the second program of her Met residency, Bullock set the poems of Langston Hughes, the “Poet Laureate of Harlem,” to music. This tribute to the artistic outpouring of black Americans escaping Jim Crow segregation by migrating to New York ties into the theme of Bullock’s residency: providing “a voice for beings and stories that...