Char'es-Baby dreams of a different life, collecting “treasure” from the junkyard while Loneliness sings to him. Billie and her five sons move in with Uncle Paul.
She doesn't shoot, but Billie tosses Spinner out. When she hears that he's flirting with other women, she confronts him at gunpoint. Her husband, Spinner, is a womanizing spendthrift. Billie works in a chicken factory, but she dreams of Char'es-Baby getting a good education and escaping their town. He is desperate for affection, but Billie is too frazzled to give him the validation that he craves.
He begins reliving memories from his childhood.Ĭharles' seven-year-old self, Char'es-Baby, talks to his mother, Billie. Destiny sings to him, calling him back to his childhood home. The school has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, music therapy, composition, and theory and music history.Company: Lyric Opera of Chicago Performance DatesĬharles Blow, age 20, drives down a Louisiana backroad with a gun in the passenger seat. UK Opera Theatre is part of the School of Music at the UK College of Fine Arts. Tickets for “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” can be purchased here. In addition to the UK vocalists, an alumnus of the UK Symphony Orchestra, Seth Morris, is serving as principal flute in the pit for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. "I am so excited for our alums to be involved in this production," UK Opera Theatre Director Everett McCorvey said. "This makes the second year in a row that our alums have graced the stage of the MET during the opening season performance. One of the things that I say to our students all of the time is that as a student at UK, you can get there from here! Our graduates are singing all over the world and it is deeply gratifying to know that they trained and refined their gifts right here at UK with our wonderful academic and performance faculty." And Kenney is making his Met debut in the role of Chester. In addition to lending her voice to the chorus, Ballew also portrays the character of Verna. The six Wildcats lending their voices as part of the cast and chorus of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” include soprano Denisha Ballew, baritone Christopher Kenney, soprano Christine Jobson, soprano Andrea Jones-Sojola, dramatic mezzo-soprano Karmesha Peake and baritone Markel Reed. Baritone Will Liverman stars as Charles alongside soprano Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta, soprano Latonia Moore as Billie, and Walter Russell III as Char’es-Baby. Brown - two creators of the Met’s most recent production of “Porgy and Bess” - co-direct this new staging Brown, who is also the production’s choreographer, becomes the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts and James Robinson and Camille A. 23.įeaturing filmmaker Kasi Lemmons’ libretto, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship.
Blow’s moving memoir, features the vocal talents of six Wildcats and runs through Oct. “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. University of Kentucky opera alumni are helping the Metropolitan Opera make history with the staging of its first opera by a Black composer.
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