Fire Shut Up in My Bones: Opera Suite in Concert

Terence Blanchard with The E-Collective, Turtle Island Quartet & Andrew F. Scott

Justin Austin, baritone

Adrienne Danrich, soprano

In September 2021, after The Metropolitan Opera had been shuttered for over a year, the world-renowned institution opened its season with the first work in its 138 years written by an African American composer—Terence Blanchard’s masterpiece Fire Shut Up In My Bones.

This work has surpassed the realm of masterpiece and entered that of a new cultural paradigm. The overarching theme of this new moment is that opera and classical music are for everyone. In an effort to continue that message, Blanchard and The E-Collective have teamed up with David Balakrishnan and his double GRAMMY®-winning Turtle Island Quartet and visual artist Andrew F. Scott to create a concert production that features excerpts from the opera performed by the composer, this incredible ensemble, and two guest singers.

The music and Scott’s video projections give the audience a look inside the mind of Blanchard, and the gravitational pull of the moment that he has created.

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Content Advisory: Fire Shut Up in My Bones addresses adult themes and contains adult language.