High Notes: On Stage This Month at the Met

Hailed by The New York Times as “a milestone work,” the Met's season-opening production of Fire Shut Up in My Bones continues its historic run through October 23. [The Metropolitan Opera]( [Hight Notes - October]( Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones ON STAGE THROUGH OCTOBER 23 Hailed by The New York Times as “a milestone work,” the Met's season-opening production of Fire Shut Up in My Bones continues its historic run through October 23. Baritone Will Liverman gives a powerful performance in Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of the best-selling memoir by Charles M. Blow, starring alongside sopranos Angel Blue and Latonia Moore. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts James Robinson and Camille A. Brown’s acclaimed staging, a New York Times Critic’s Pick that “heralds a new era for the Met” (The Economist). We can’t wait to see you at the Met, and we are committed to making the changes necessary to keep everyone safe, including a mandatory vaccination and masking policy for all audiences and employees. For more information about these policies and improvements, visit metopera.org/commitment. [BUY TICKETS]( [WATCH TRAILER]( --------------------------------------------------------------- On Stage This Month Headlining Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s Turandot as the fearsome title princess, Christine Goerke (pictured) reprises a signature role that the “blazing soprano [sings] with steely sound and chilling intensity” (The New York Times), opposite tenor Yusif Eyvazov as Calà f, starting October 12. Then, on October 23, Wagner’s grand comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg takes the Met stage for the first time in seven years, with Maestro Antonio Pappano conducting a sensational cast led by baritone Michael Volle and soprano Lise Davidsen in her eagerly anticipated first Wagner role with the company. Finally, the Met’s smash-hit production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns October 31, starring soprano Angel Blue and bass-baritone Eric Owens. [VIEW CALENDAR]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Live in HD: Two Acclaimed Productions on the Big Screen René Pape (pictured) gives a gripping performance in one of opera’s greatest bass roles, when Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov—a New York Times Critic’s Pick—hits cinemas on October 9. And on October 23, audiences around the world will have the chance to experience the opera that’s taken New York City by storm as Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones appears on the big screen. 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