The Met made its painful decision to cancel the balance of the 2020–21 season based on the advice of health officials who advise the Met and Lincoln Center. Blanchard’s opera is the first by an African American composer to be performed at the Met.

The Metropolitan Opera has announced that the ongoing health crisis has resulted in the cancellation of the entire 2020–21 season, but the company also announced ambitious artistic plans for its 2021–22 season, which will open with the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The Met’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions will return with ten presentations, including all six new productions.Maestro Nézet-Séguin will conduct Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Eurydice, Don Carlos, and revivals of Le Nozze di Figaro and Tosca.

In addition to Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the 2021–22 season will feature five more new productions: the Met premieres of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, Brett Dean’s Hamlet, and the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, and new stagings of Verdi’s Rigoletto and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.

A full slate of performances is announced for 2021–22, including three contemporary Met premieres-the most since 1928-starting with the Opening Night presentation of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on September 27, 2021.

While also Announcing Its Lineup for 2021–22 (for more information click here) The Metropolitan Opera Cancels Its 2020–21 Season Due to the Ongoing Pandemic

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