Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship.
James Robinson and Camille A. Brown—two of the creators of the recent production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess—co-direct this new staging, live in cinemas on October 23. Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie.
Libretto: Kasi Lemmons
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production: James Robinson & Camille A. Brown
Set Designer: Allen Moyer
Costume Designer: Paul Tazewell
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind
Choreographer: Camille A. Brown
Cast: Angel Blue (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta), Latonia Moore (Billie), Will Liverman (Charles)
The opera is sung in english with english subtitles.
Distributor:
The Metropolitan Opera
Director:
James Robinson, Camille A. Brown
