Fire Shut Up in My Bones "Bend Don't Break" Mug
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Description
Fire Shut Up in My Bones "Bend Don't Break" Mug
Created exclusively for the Metropolitan Opera, this glossy, black porcelain mug features a quote from the opera Fire Shup Up in My Bones.
Composed by Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard with a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera is an adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, which tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship.
This unique mug holds 11 fluid ounces and is dishwasher and microwave safe.
A Met Opera Exclusive
- Glossy black interior
- Porcelain
- 11 fl. oz.
- Dishwasher and microwave safe
- Made in USA
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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