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Bullock’s voice and vision are forces to be reckoned with.
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Bullock’s voice and vision are forces to be reckoned with.
The soprano Julia Bullock made me tear up at her recital on Sunday afternoon. It wasn’t until the next day that I realized that when I last heard her a couple of years ago, I said exactly the same thing.
Bullock is the real deal. A charismatic stage presence, she has a magnificent instrument that projects evenly and betrays no problem spots: the low register is dark and honeyed, the middle one warm and rounded; the top gleams. Her intonation is spot-on, her diction crystalline. And her interpretive arsenal includes a powerful range of shadings, from...
Ms. Bullock brought together spoken texts, instrumental selections and songs, delivered by her and others. Her dusky voice, which rises with strength and focus, like a cloud condensing into a thunderbolt, breathed both humanity and epic grace into the music.