Performing Arts

Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

Barbican Centre · Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS

20 October 2026

Soprano Julia Bullock brings Joséphine Baker's defiant voice back to the stage in a genre-crossing song cycle that weaves opera, jazz and French music hall. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey reimagines Baker's own songs for Barbican Hall, turning a century of pressure into an evening of extraordinary treasure.

Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

Barbican Centre

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