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...

Julia Bullock began her season-long residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Saturday, September 15. Her residency is a five-event series spanning from September 2018 to May 2019, centered on the themes of identity, objectification, and history. Bullock, who is of mixed black and white ancestry, views this residency as an opportunity to explore...