Dartmouth Events

Met Opera in HD: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

The Met opens its season with this landmark work: the first performance of an opera by a Black composer with co-direction by the first Black director of a mainstage production.

Saturday, October 23, 2021
1:00pm – 3:45pm
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Films
Tickets required.

Composed by Grammy Award–winning jazz musician Terence Blanchard, the opera is an adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir, which The New York Timespraised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as "bold and affecting" and "subtly powerful." 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 Met's sensational recent production of 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.

Terence Blanchard will perform live at the Hop on Wednesday, October 20, 2021.

For more information, contact:
Darien Jones
603.646.2422

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.