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The Met: Live in HD - Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Sat, Oct 23
|Santa Fe
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.
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2021, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Santa Fe, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
about this event
Face masks and proof of vaccination—or proof of recent negative Covid test—are required at this event. See lensic.org/safe-access details.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir.
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 recent production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess—co-direct this new staging. 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.