Premier of Met Opera's "Fire Shut Up In My Bones"
Fire Shut Up in my Bones
Simulcast of Met Opera's opening night of "Fire Shut Up in my Bones".
The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2021–22 season on September 27 with the Met premiere of Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first work by a Black composer to be presented at the Met. SummerStage, in association with Met Opera, will present the free premiere streamed live from Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park.
Based on Charles M. 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. Brown. The opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. Brown, who is also the production’s choreographer, becomes the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the cast starring Will Liverman as Charles, Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta, and Latonia Moore as Billie.
Date: Monday September 27th
Time: 5:00 PM - a live conversation with Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons - Performance of the opera starts at 6:30 PM and finishes at 9:00 PM (Doors open at 4:00)
Location: Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem
Tickets: FREE Event
Safety
All free performances will be open to the public, first come, first served, and subject to venue capacity limits.
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. Masks are required upon entry and strongly encouraged for all guests for the duration of the performance.
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