"To be able to play a person I completely know, to be able to step into a cultural I completely know, it made me feel strong," said Staten. Yannick Nzet-Sguin conducts Grammy Awardwinning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchards adaptation of Charles M. The opera's associate choreographer Jay Staten performed in the New York production. The composer Terence Blanchard cheered the cast and creative team during the final curtain call of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first work by a Black composer ever staged at the Met. "It's incredibly thrilling to be a composer, to be a conductor and a stage director and singer because we get to create so many new pieces that are expanding our musical language, that are not replicating what happened in the past." Brown co-direct this new staging, featuring baritone Will Liverman, one of operas exciting young artists, alongside sopranos Angel Blue and Latonia Moore. "We need to go back to our roots and bring the music of what we experienced in childhood bring it into music and bring it into opera," said conductor Daniela Candillari. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed and the views expressed are the author’s own. "I was just talking to Terence and he's so blown away by the theater and the orchestra here."īlanchard blends opera with gospel and there's even a jazz combo. Multiple Grammy-Award winning musician and composer Terence Blanchard brings his profound and groundbreaking second opera in jazz Fire Shut Up in My Bones. REVIEW: Champion is the second opera by a Black composer to play the New York Metropolitan Opera House, following Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. "When we put this production together for the Metropolitan Opera and knew it would also be presented at the Lyric, I was absolutely thrilled, it's a dream come true for me," said co-director James Robinson. Grammy-winning jazz artist and composer Terence Blanchard created the opera. "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is based on a memoir by acclaimed journalist Charles Blow. It's about a young man's struggle to overcome the anguish and poverty of rural Louisiana and forge his own path. The new age opera is praised as a groundbreaking achievement of color and culture. Louis.Terence Blanchard' "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" opens at the Lyric's Opera of Chicago on March 24th.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - The electrifying "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is coming to the Lyric Opera of Chicago next week. Monday night’s performance, the first in 18 months, featured the Met’s first-ever opera by a Black composer: a stage adaptation of the memoir by Charles M. Met Music Director Yannick Nzet-Sguin conducts Grammy. Originally commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, co-commissioned by Jazz St. Content Advisory: Fire Shut Up in My Bones addresses adult themes and contains some adult language. Libretto by Kasi Lemmons.Ĭommissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Evan Rogister conducts Blanchard’s score, which powerfully melds opera and jazz.Ĭontent Advisory: Fire Shut Up in My Bones addresses adult themes and contains some adult language.Īn opera by Terence Blanchard. Brown’s gripping production includes what is surely the only step dance in opera. Soprano Latonia Moore reprises her heartbreaking portrayal as Charles’s mother, Billie, with rising soprano Brittany Renee doing triple duty as Charles’s love interest, Greta, as well as the embodiments of Loneliness and Destiny. Terence Blanchard’s stirring drama returns following its landmark company premiere in 2021, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green starring as Charles, a young man faced with a fateful decision.
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