Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Screening Jan 16 2pm.

Click here for the cast sheet.

Join us and raise a glass for the launch of the new Met Season, exclusive to Art Screen Events in Tasmania.

Tickets on sale now and include a glass of wine,bubbles or softdrink.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguinconducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir.

The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and 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 recent production of the Gershwins’ 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.

“A watershed moment for American opera ... A defiant, tender, and vital work of art ... A starting point for something new, a refresh of where opera can take us.”