Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

OPERA
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 16, 2021 (continuing through OCTOBER 23)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY

Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$37-$460
https://www.metopera.org/season/2021-22-season/fire-shut-up-in-my-bones/

This is a triumph in all sorts of ways — and a disappointment in just about none. One star-making performance. Two star-confirming ones. A great piece: one of the three best American operas of this Century so far. With an extraordinary libretto. Go: you've got to.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No place nearby open afterward. If you're able to stay awake for a two-hour-forty-minute piece after eating, I'll note that Boulud Sud has reopened for dinner beforehand.