When Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, general manager Peter Gelb wasted no time lining up the composer’s other opera for the current season.
And that set the clock ticking for Blanchard and his collaborators to adapt a relatively small-scale work to the vast resources of the nation’s premiere opera house.
Blanchard, who in addition to writing operas is known as a jazz trumpeter and composer of film scores, said he was inspired by Griffith’s own words, rephrased for poetic effect in Cristofer’s libretto: “I killed a man and the world forgives me; I love a man and the world wants to kill me.’” And Blanchard made significant changes to his score, adding new material and rewriting some sections to accommodate the different voice types of his lead singers.
“One day he came up to me and said, ‘I feel this scene is a bit too low for you. Mind if I take it up?’” Gelb persuaded him, saying, “Speedo, that’s the beauty of having a living composer. Things can change.”
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