Name: Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Start: 2022-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Lyric Opera House

Organization

Singer

Bass-baritone

Will Liverman

Charles Blow

Tenor

Chauncey Packer

Spinner

Stage director

James Robinson

Camille A Brown

Conductor

Daniela Candillari

Lighting designer

Christopher Akerlind

Costume designer

Paul Tazewell

Set designer

Allen Moyer

Chorus master

Michael Black

Soprano

Latonia Moore

Billie

Choreographer

Video designer

Greg Emetaz

Baritone

Chris Kenney

Chester

Brittany Renee

Destiny

Loneliness

Greta

Child vocalist

Benjamin Preacely

Char'es-Baby

Justin Austin

Whitney Morrison

Leroy Davis

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Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus

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Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra

LA Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago

The Metropolitan Opera

English

Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Chicago

United States

Lyric Opera House

Fire Shut Up In My Bones Blanchard

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Fire Shut Up In My Bones: Fire Shut Up In My Bones Blanchard

Terence Blanchard’s powerful new opera stars baritone Will Liverman alongside sopranos Angel Blue and Latonia Moore, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin...

In this show-stopping scene from Act One of Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons's FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES, Billie (sung here by soprano Latonia Moore) imparts some important life lessons to her youngest son, Char'es-Baby (Benjamin Preacely) as his older self looks on (Will Liverman). 

Experience this powerful opera, onstage at Lyric now through April 8 with tickets at https://lyricopera.org/fire

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s widely acclaimed memoir is the source for this extremely moving story of his traumatic youth in Louisiana. What an amazing collection of talent — composer Terence Blanchard, one of the most influential figures in American jazz; librettist Kasi Lemmons, director of such remarkable films as Harriet and Eve’s Bayou; and a topflight cast including many of America’s most brilliant singing actors. Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an opera for today, revealing the Black experience in this country as few other operas have done.

Fire Shut Up in My Bones addresses adult themes and contains some adult language.

Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Blanchard, Wed 06 Apr 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by James Robinson, Camille A Brown,, Conductor Daniela Candillari, Lyric Opera House, Chicago, United States

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