Met Opera: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

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 tellsa 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. 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.
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Rating E
Genre Musical
Running Time 216
Language
New & Noteworthy
Closed Caption CNMN First Nations Acknowledgement