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Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Met Live in HD DVD)
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Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Met Live in HD DVD)
2023 Grammy Award Winner – Best Opera Recording
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Artists: Will Liverman, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz, Denyce Graves, Donovan Singletary, Ryan Speedo Green, Cheikh M’Baye, Oleode Oshotse, Jon Luc Jobson-Larkin, Judah Taylor, Norman Garrett, Terrence Chin-Loy, Briana Hunter, Chauncey Packer, Denisha Ballew, Marguerite Mariah Jones, Chris Kenney, Cierra Byrd, Calvin Griffin, Errin Duane Brooks, Brittany Renee, David Morgans Sanchez, Chase Taylor, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directors: James Robinson, Camille A. Brown
Video Format: Color 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: The Metropolitan Opera
Release Date: August 5, 2022
Run Time: 174 minutes
Terence Blanchard’s groundbreaking new opera, based on the memoir by Charles M. Blow, made history as the first opera by a Black composer to be presented at the Met. Recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series, this powerful performance stars baritone Will Liverman and sopranos Latonia Moore and Angel Blue, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a vivid staging co-directed by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.
History
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
The second opera from seven-time Grammy Award–winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history during the 2021–22 season as the first opera by a Black composer to be performed by the Met. But beyond this important milestone, the work itself takes audiences on a profound, often painful, musical and dramatic journey. To tell this story, Blanchard conjures a sound world that weaves together jazz and gospel idioms, probing and incisive melodies, and an intricate orchestral palette.
The opera, based on the memoir by Charles M. Blow (b. 1970), a noted journalist and commentator, takes place in and around the small and poor town of Gibsland, in northwestern Louisiana, as well as at Blow’s alma mater, Grambling State University. The time ranges from Charles’s childhood in the 1970s to his adulthood in the 1990s.
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