Organization

Conductor

Evan Rogister

Stage director

James Robinson

Camille A Brown

Set designer

Allen Moyer

Costume designer

Paul Tazewell

Lighting designer

Christopher Akerlind

Choreographer

Dramaturge

Paul Cremo

Singer

Soprano

Brittany Renee

Destiny

Loneliness

Greta

Latonia Moore

Billie

Bass-baritone

Ryan Speedo Green

Charles Blow

Others

Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus

Orchestra

Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra

LA Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago

The Metropolitan Opera

English

Fire Shut Up In My Bones

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Fire Shut Up In My Bones Blanchard

Public

Private

Approved

Terence Blanchard’s stirring drama returns following its landmark company premiere in 2021, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green starring as Charles, a young man faced with a fateful decision. Soprano Latonia Moore reprises her heartbreaking portrayal as Charles’s mother, Billie, with rising soprano Brittany Renee doing triple duty as Charles’s love interest, Greta, as well as the embodiments of Loneliness and Destiny. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown’s gripping production includes what is surely the only step dance in opera. Evan Rogister conducts Blanchard’s score, which powerfully melds opera and jazz.

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

An opera by Terence Blanchard. Based on the Book by Charles M. Blow. Libretto by Kasi Lemmons.

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Originally commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, co-commissioned by Jazz St. Louis.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago 

Production a gift of The Ford Foundation and the Francis Goelet Trusts

Additional funding from The Joan Ganz Cooney and Holly Peterson Fund

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer