Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s widely acclaimed
memoir is the source for this extremely moving story of his
traumatic youth in Louisiana. 


Composer Terence Blanchard, one of the most influential figures
in American jazz, teamed up with librettist Kasi Lemmons,
director of such remarkable films as Harriet and Eve’s Bayou to
create an opera adaptation of this remarkable story.


The result is an an opera that is timely, moving and powerful,
revealing the Black experience in this country as few other
operas have done and it's currently at the Lyric Opera in
Chicago. 


Stephen Rawson talks with Blanchard and features excerpts from
the opera, courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.