{"id":59035,"date":"2019-10-15T20:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59035"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T22:02:51","slug":"the-artistry-of-the-soprano-julia-bullock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59035","title":{"rendered":"The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Yorker<\/a>
\n2019-11-16<\/p>\n

Russell Platt<\/strong><\/a>, Composer and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
\nBlair School of Music
\nVanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJulia Bullock<\/a> combines a rare onstage aura with a style that is exacting but not fussy, with hardly an unturned phrase. Photograph by Hiroyuki Ito\/Getty<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It is rare to find a classical singer who can truly project an aura onstage. Those who are young must seem to carry the wisdom of age; those who are older must avoid the risk of royal self-regard. And there is no instrument to hide behind, no violin to seduce, no piano to pound\u2014a singer\u2019s body is, or course, her instrument. But Julia Bullock<\/a>, a young soprano<\/a> who performed her Naumburg Foundation<\/a> recital last Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum<\/a>, definitely has it, and she is off to a fine career.<\/p>\n

Bullock, an African-American singer from St. Louis<\/a> who trained at Eastman Bard, and Juilliard, won first prize last year in the Naumburg International Vocal Competition. Over the years, the Naumburg, through its various awards, has had a penchant for honoring interesting singers who don\u2019t fit easily into the standard operatic categories: trailblazers such as Regina Sarfaty<\/a>, Dawn Upshaw<\/a>, Barbara Hendricks<\/a>, and Lucy Shelton<\/a>, for example. I can\u2019t yet imagine Bullock walking the boards as Tosca or Violetta, but she has made several strategic forays into opera\u2014such as the title role in Purcell\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe Indian Queen<\/a>\u201d at Madrid\u2019s Teatro Real<\/a> and at the English National Opera<\/a>, and, later this month, she will appear in Saariaho\u2019s<\/a> \u201cLa Passion de Simone<\/a>,\u201d at the Deutsche Oper Berlin<\/a> (directed by Peter Sellars<\/a>). But her recital had its own kind of drama, not the less effective for being so refined…<\/p>\n

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But Julia Bullock, a young soprano who performed her Naumburg Foundation recital last Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum, definitely has it, and she is off to a fine career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[30356,1392,15360,30362,3886],"class_list":["post-59035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-julia-bullock","tag-music","tag-opera","tag-russell-platt","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59038,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035\/revisions\/59038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}