Met Opera: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

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Met Opera: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Mon 1 Jan 0001 - Sat 23 Oct 2021, Screen One

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, which The New York Times praised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful.” 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 Met’s sensational recent production of Porgy and Bess—co-direct this new staging, which appears 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.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. The Met Premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera will star Angel Blue, Latonia Moore and Will Liverman. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

Sung in English, estimated running time 2 hours 40 minutes.

Tickets £22 / Season for £180