Based on the 2014 memoir by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, the is a deeply personal and contemporary story.
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” which received its first performance by Lyric Opera on Thursday evening, is based on the 2014 memoir penned by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. The title of the opera, like that of Blow’s book, is drawn directly from the biblical story of Jeremiah, the severely persecuted “weeping prophet” known for his tender heart. But it is a deeply personal and contemporary story.
Along the way there is a reckoning with everything from the Baptist church in which he failed to find salvation, to a brutal initiation ceremony into a college fraternity that he somehow found the strength to endure, and to a brief but crushing love affair with a woman to whom he confides his childhood secret and shame only to be abandoned.
And then there are the two notable women in Charles’ life . Soprano Brittany Renee plays the semi-mythic female figures of Destiny and Loneliness, the driving forces in his existence, as well as Greta, the woman who might even have become his wife, but who quickly claims she has another lover after he trusts her enough to reveal his painful childhood secret for the very first time. Earlier on there also a brief encounter in a park with the lovely Evelyn .
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