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Audience members are taken through the turbulent 1970s in rural Louisiana, where Charles faces a chaotic home life and self-doubt on his path toward college and ultimately to self-acceptance. The opera, which runs from March 24 – April 8, 2022, follows young Charles, a “child of peculiar grace,” on his inspirational journey to becoming a man.

Live concert recording courtesy of Euroradio.Lyric Opera of Chicago is proud to present the Chicago premiere of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” a new opera from six-time Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons, based on the memoir by New York Times columnist Charles M. Originally commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, co-commissioned by Jazz St. Sung in English.Ī co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Blow, Libretto by Kasi Lemmons had its world premiere at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, 2019. The time ranges from Charles’s childhood in the 1970s to his adulthood in the 1990s.įire Shut Up in My Bones is based on the Book by ‎Charles M.

The opera takes place in and around the small and poor town of Gibsland, in northwestern Louisiana, as well as at Blow’s alma mater, Grambling State University. Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside soprano Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta, soprano Latonia Moore as Billie, and Walter Russell III as Char’es-Baby. Brown, two of the creators of the Met’s sensational recent production of Porgy and Bess, co-direct this new staging Brown, who is also the production’s choreographer, becomes the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. 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.” 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.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. To tell this story, Blanchard conjures a sound world that weaves together jazz and gospel idioms, probing and incisive melodies, and an intricate orchestral palette. The second opera from six-time Grammy Award–winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. Fire Shut Up in My Bones makes history as the first opera by a Black composer to be performed by the Met.īut beyond this important milestone, the work itself takes you on a profound, often painful, musical and dramatic journey.