The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up In My Bones
The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (v.o.a.s-t.f.)
- Release Date: October 23, 2021 (limited)
- Genre: Opera
- Director: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Writer(s): Terence Blanchard
- Studio: The Metropolitan Opera
- Length: 3h 15m
Synopsis
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award - winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man's journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown - two of the creators of the recent production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess?co-direct this new staging, live in cinemas on October 23. Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera's most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie.