WNET: Friday on PBS: "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" from the Metropolitan Opera premieres April 1 at 9 PM ET (Check local listings)

 Walter Russell III and dancers in "Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones." 

Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera.

Featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons and a score by Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard, the opera tells the story from Charles M. Blow's memoir. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown co-direct this new staging, with Brown also choreographing, becoming the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. Baritone Will Liverman stars as Charles alongside soprano Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta with soprano Latonia Moore as Billie and Walter Russell III as Char’es-Baby.