![]() Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the cast starring Will Liverman as Charles, Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta, and Latonia Moore as Billie. Brown, who is also the production’s choreographer, becomes the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. ![]() Blow, made history as the first opera by a Black composer to be presented at the Met. Blow’s moving memoir of the same name and featuring a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, this new staging is co-directed by James Robinson and Camille A. Terence Blanchard’s groundbreaking new opera, based on the memoir by Charles M. SummerStage is proud to present the free premiere streamed live from Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park.īased on Charles M. The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2021–22 season on September 27 with the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first work by a Black composer to be presented at the Met. Learn more about acceptable documentation, mask guidelines, and other safety protocols here. For the Met: Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are Supervising Producers and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik. Masks are required upon entry and strongly encouraged for all guests for the duration of the performance. Fire Shut Up in My Bones is directed for the screen by Gary Halvorson. In response to the increasing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, all guests of SummerStage events at Marcus Garvey Park will be required to show either proof of full COVID-19 vaccination (final dose by August 14) or a negative PCR test within the last 72 hours in order to enter. For all its newsworthiness, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an old-fashioned opera opera. In our conversation, we reflect on that musical feat, and why Blanchard was the ideal composer for the task - and muse about the opera’s broader impact, as more institutions grapple with the issue of representation, and creators continue to seek avenues for their work.All free performances will be open to the public, first come, first served, and subject to venue capacity limits. The music and its performers serve Kasi Lemmons’ libretto masterfully - combining a command of the classical tradition with a commitment to convey the Black experience. ![]() ![]() The subject is raw: A 7-year-old boy is raped by an older cousin and spends the next dozen years. Fire is less about forcing improvisational music onto the canvas, and more about drawing from one of the music’s core philosophies: that the composer should serve the narrative by any means necessary. For all its newsworthiness, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an old-fashioned opera opera. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly 16 Performances Dates: Jan 11 - 27, Feb 27 - Mar 14, Apr 27 - May 11 Cio-Cio San: Aleksandra Kurzak Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Blow’s unflinching memoir as a groundbreaking moment for Black creators in the operatic realm as an emotional experience, both onstage and in the hall.īlanchard has proven that he’s boundless as an improviser, a film composer, and a bandleader. Puts The Hours 8 Performances Dates: May 5 - 31 Virginia Woolf: Joyce DiDonato Laura Brown: Kelli O’Hara Clarissa Vaughan: Renée Fleming. Nate reviewed the opera for NPR Music, calling it “magnetically powerful.” But both of us came away from the evening with a lot to say, and we knew we had to talk about it here - as a potent translation of Charles M. Last week, Greg joined Nate Chinen for the work’s historic premiere at The Metropolitan Opera - when it became the first opera presented by a Black composer in The Met’s 138-year history. “That encapsulates the African-American experience,” our own Greg Bryant reflects in this episode of Jazz United, which we’ve devoted to Fire.
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