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Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021)
Directed by Gary Halvorson, Camille A. Brown, James Robinson
Music · 2h 55m
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.
Cast
Angel Blue
Latonia Moore
Will Liverman
Crew
- Director
- Gary Halvorson, Camille A. Brown, James Robinson
- Writer
- Kasi Lemmons
- Original Music Composer
- Terence Blanchard
Details
- Release date
- 2021-10-23
- Runtime
- 2h 55m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English