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Met debut in El Niño

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-conductor John Adams is one of Bullock’s most important musical associates. It was she who created the role of Dame Shirley in his opera Girls of the Golden West and sang the role of Kitty Oppenheimer under his baton on the Grammy-nominated 2018 recording of his opera Doctor Atomic. In a note for Nonesuch Records’ 2022 release of...

“Opera News” Magazine April Cover

Julia Bullock graces the cover of Opera Magazine’s April Issue. Following her big win at the 66th Grammy Awards, Julia received a six page feature in the Magazine’s April edition. Jennifer Melick sat down with Bullock to discuss her career, her debut album Walking in the Dark, the opening of El Niño with the Metropolitan...

Julia Bullock Wins First Grammy Award with Walking in the Dark, Her Solo Album Debut

At last night’s 66th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, it was announced that American classical singer Julia Bullock had received her first Grammy Award, winning in the Best Classical Solo Vocal category for Walking in the Dark. Marking Bullock’s solo album debut, the recording has already been recognized with both Opus Klassik and Edison Klassiek awards, as well as being featured in the New York Times’s “Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022.” Alongside offerings from Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, it was named among the “20 Best Albums of 2022” by NPR, which called it “an album that shines, introducing us to......

EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED on Tour

This December, Julia Bullock and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) takes its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered on tour. The piece, with a libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by Bullock, is set to appear at Opera Omaha in Omaha (Dec 11), Nebraska (Dec 13), Stanford Live in Stanford, California (Dec),...