Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

OPERA
MONDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 & OCTOBER 1, 2021 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
6:30 PM MONDAY
7:30 PM FRIDAY

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

MONDAY: $130-$500
FRIDAY: $37-$460
https://www.metopera.org/season/2021-22-season/fire-shut-up-in-my-bones/

Can Mainstream Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard write opera? Most people who saw this treatment of Charles M. Blow's memoir at Saint Louis a couple of years ago seemed to think so. A more interesting question is whether Yanick Nézet-Séguin can conduct jazz-based music. We'll see (I guess he did a good enough job with Bernstein's showbizzy Mass — but that's such a heaping pile of turds that it might be hard to judge by).

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.