Monday, March 7, 2022

WNET.org: "Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones" premiering Friday, April 1 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS

Angel Blue, Walter Russell III, Latonia Moore and Will Liverman in "Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones." 
Photo by Ken Howard.

We're getting excited for Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones premiering Friday, April 1 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) as part of #PBSForTheArts. This special opera by Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard is an adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s memoir and marked the Met’s first performance of an opera by a Black composer and its first production back in its theater following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

Featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells the story of a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship.

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