Fire Shut Up in My Bones, is a new opera from six-time Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons, based on the memoir by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. Read More.
Terence Blanchard returns to opera with ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ – Chicago Sun Times
Opera companies like to open their seasons with sure things—big-name singers and proven masterpieces. But New York’s Metropolitan Opera threw caution to the wind and launched its 2021-22 line-up with a work that had been performed just once before, in 2019—Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”—and it turned out to be a sensation. Read More.
Musician, composer brings modern day opera to the Lyric – WBBM
6 time Grammy winning musician and two-time Oscar nominated film composer Terence Blanchard started playing piano and trumpet when he was 9 years old. Read More.