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Julia Bullock wears a black sleeveless gown and a white pearl necklace as she leans forward, resting her cheek on her hand and smiling.

Theodora: What London Critics Are Saying

The Telegraph  4* – Terrorism, feminism, and slaughter – Handel gets a radical makeover  01/02/2022 Is this Handel as we know it? Or as he would have known it? No, but it has a compelling logic all its own. Director Katie Mitchell has here achieved something extraordinary: a complete transformation of the composer’s elegiac oratorio...

Thoughts on Theodora

Written by Julia Bullock January 24, 2022 How am I feeling as I head into the opening week of Theodora at the Royal Opera House? Well… I was first introduced to the oratorio Theodora when I was seventeen. I watched a DVD of this 1996 Glyndebourne production, on a small TV back in St. Louis,...

Julia Bullock wears a black blazer, looking of to the side seriously, standing against a backdrop of abstract shapes.

Julia Bullock headlines Theodora at Royal Opera House

Alongside Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński, Julia Bullock stars in a new production of Handel’s Theodora. Director Katie Mitchell reframes the classic opera through a feminist lens, taking place in an alternative modern-day reality. Of her debut as the title role, Julia shares: “I first saw Theodora in the iconic 1996 production…It really changed my life and...

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