'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' – The Met: Live in HD Screening

Terence Blanchard – 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 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. Baritone Will Liverman, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie.

If the Met is unable to transmit a live program as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Met may, at its election, transmit an opera performance from a prior season in lieu of the original program.

Content Advisory: Fire Shut Up in My Bones addresses adult themes and contains some adult language.

The event will take place at 9:55am.

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