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Nov 7, 2021 · The Met opened its new season with a production of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blancha...more. In its 138 years, America's leading opera house, the...
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The video home of 5 time Grammy Award winning trumpeter, film, broadway and opera composer Terence Blanchard.
Terence Blanchard has incredible artistic breadth-- one that's extended by his two-act opera, Champion.Champion is the story of the former welterweight and m...
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Apr 29, 2023 · Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an English-language opera in three acts, with music by Terence Blanchard and libretto by Kasi Lemmons. The opera was first performed at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2019, and is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Charles M. Blow.
Sep 28, 2021 · Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on a memoir by Charles M. Blow, is the first opera by a Black composer presented by the Metropolitan Opera in the New York...
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New York, NY (December 7, 2021)—Following the success of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which reopened the Metropolitan Opera and played to sold out houses, the company announced today that it will present Blanchard’s first opera, Champion, with libretto by Michael Cristofer, in April 2023.